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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Selaginella—continued. 
S. erythropus (red-footed).* stems about Qin. long, bright 
crimson, simple in the lower half or third, deltoid and decom- 
und upwards ; lower pinne deltoid, tripinnate ; final branch- 
ets ascending, contiguous. J. of the lower plane contiguous, 
ascending, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute, yin. to gin. long, 
bright green, unequal-sided, strongly ciliated and imbricated 
over the stem on the upper side at the base; leaves of the 
upper plane half as long, oblique-ovate, cuspidate. spikes square ; 
practs cuspidate, strongly keeled. Tropical America. Stove. 
The form major is more compound, the unbranched part of the 
stem longer, and all its leaves adpressed, S. setosa (of gardens) 
is a starved, small form of this species. 
S. filicina (Fern-like). A synonym of S. hematodes. 
S. flabellata (fan-shaped). stems lft. to 2ft. long, erect, simple 
in the lower half, deltoid and decompound in the upper half ; 
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S. formosa (beautiful). 
S. fulerata (fulcrate). 
Selaginella—continued. 
S. flagelliformis (whip-like). A synonym of S. plumosa flagellifera, 
S. flexuosa (fiexuous). 
stems about lft. long, flat on the back, 
copiously branched, the lower branches elongated and copiously 
compound, the upper part assurgent; root-tibres often only 
developed from the lower half. l. of the lower plane close, 
spreading, bright green, oblong-rhomboidal, sub-acute, gin, to 
tin. long, more produced on the upper side of the distinct 
midrib, serrulated on the upper side near the base; leaves 
of the upper plane one-third as long, long-cuspidate. spikes żin. 
to lin. long, square; bracts half a line long, crowded, sharply 
keeled. South Brazil. Stove. 
A form of S. Martensii. 
stems lift. to 2ft. long, stiffly erect, 
simple in the lower half, with a few distant, small, adpressed 
leaves, deltoid and decompound in the upper half ; pinne deltoid. 
FIG. 469. SELAGINELLA INVOLYENS VARIEGATA. 
pinnæ deltoid, the lower three or four-pinnate ; final branchlets 
agho, jin. to lin. long. Z. of the lower plane contiguous, 
oblig ue-ovate, acute, ascending, bright green, obliquely inserted, 
much dilated, ciliated, much imbricated over the stem on the 
upper side at base ; leaves of the upper plane a quarter to one- 
peat Pa long, cus saate. spikes square, $in. to lin. long; bracts 
cuspidate, strongly keeled. Tropics of Asia, Americ: ( 
ti t ? pled. pics Asia, America, and 
Polynesia. Stove. : nun 
S. flagellata (whip-like). stems trailing, 6in. long; branches 
erecto-patent, the lower ones copiously compound; branches 
excurrent and whip-like at the end. Z. of the lower plane ovate- 
nceolate, very acute, above one line long, pellucid, bright green 
ae produced on the upper side of the midrib, rounded at the 
cme shortly ciliated, imbricated over the stem ; leaves of the upper 
pera ra ag long, Biya acuminate, faleate, converging 
spikes in. to }in. long ; bracts very acuminate, strongly keeled. 
French Guiana. Stove. ee ee 
S. flagellifera (whip-hearing). 
A garden form of S. plumosa. 
S. Galeottéi (Galeotté’s), 
the lower ones three or four-pinnate, the rachises pubescent ; 
final branchlets contiguous, lin. to jin. long. J. of the lower 
plane rather spaced even on the branchlets, “ascending. lanceo- 
late, acute, j,in. to jin. long, truncate ; leaves of the upper 
plane half as long, incurved, not cuspidate. spikes square go 
to żin. long; bracts little longer than the sporangia. Eastern 
Himalayas. A well-marked, greenhouse species. i 
stems lft. to 2ft. long, sub-erect, with 
; half, sometimes excurrent and whip- 
piously pinnate, the branches pyramidal and 
of the lower plane close on the branchlets, 
root-fibres from the lower 
like at the tip, co 
decompound. 7. 
spaced on the 
branches and st ascendi t 
or on en anches stem, ascending, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acute, in. to din. long, more produced 
on the upper side of the midrib, broadly rounded and shortly 
ciliated on the upper side at the base, truncate and auricled 
on the lower; leaves of the upper plane one-third to one-half 
as long, much imbricated. spikes jin. to din. long: bracts 
cuspidate, strongly keeled. Mexico. Stove. — Bach oe 
