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This is the alternative name for Barometz, the part-vegetable, part-animal creature of European legend. It is possible that the legends surrounding this intriguing creature are based upon the little understood formation of the mineral travertine which is built up by calcium carbonate deposited through the flow of thermal waters over plant matter. As these deposits build up so the branch or bush becomes slowly turned into stone. In botany, Lycopodium is now the Latin name for the genus of club mosses.