Selaginellaceae. Selaginella Family. 
Low moss-like herbs, the stems slender, branched, of prostrate or 
creeping habit. Leaves small, either thin-membranous and spreading, forming 
frond-like sheets of foliage, or firmg closely imbricated in overlapping 
4-ranked rows upon the shoot axis, Sporangia axillary, in terminal 
4-angled spicate strobili of leaves which often differ but little from the 
ordinary foliage leaves, bearing spores of two kinds, the larger (megaspores) 
1-4, the smaller (microspores) very numerous, minute, powdery. Gametophytes 
retained nari or wholly within the spore walls, sump both male and female 
gametophytes dependent upon stored food of the sporese 
1. Selaginella Beauv, Small Club Mosses, 
Characters of the family, 
O Leaves rhombic- or oval-oblong, obtuse, merely cuspidate, 
4 Ge green; spreading frond-like thin mat 
erbs on shaded moist banks | le S. Douglasii 
© Leaves oblong-linear, narrowed to an obtuse apex, setose, 
4 ales dense more or less stiff mat herbs 
on rock slopes and summits Ze Se Wallacei 
le Se Douglasii (Hooke & Greve) Spring, Delicate pretty herb of prostrate 
creeping habit, the stems 15-35 cm, long, rooting throughout, the branbhes 
leafy throughout; leaves in 4 ranks, those of 2 upper rows smaller, rhombic 
ovate, those of the 2 lateral rows oval-oblong, 2-3 mm, long, all obtuse; 
strobili dense, quadrangular, 5-12 mm, long, of closely imbricated sporophylls, 
these cordate-ovate, acuminate, keeled, membranous, 
On wet rocks and shaded banks, occasional in our regione 
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