24 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 



Hab. Mountains of the Sandwich Islands, 1000-5000 feet. 



214. S. CAULESCENS Spring Mon. ii. 158. — S. pcltata Presl. — 

 S, belLula and ininutifolia Cesati. — Lycopodiun caulescens WalL — 

 L. fruticulosum Bkime, non Bory. — Stem generally i-1 ft. long, 

 stifHy erect, imbranched in the lower half, with spaced adpressed 

 leaves, deltoid and decompound in the upper half; pinna; close, 

 deltoid, with copiously subflabellately compound lower pinnules, 

 with contiguous ascending final branchlets J-1 in. long, ^ in. 

 broad, liable to curl up in drought. Leaves of the lower plane 

 crowded, ovate, falcate, acute, ^-1 liu. long, bright green, firm in 

 texture, rather unequal-sided, broadly rounded and shortly ciliated 

 on the upper side at the base, and slightly imbricated over the 

 stem ; leaves of the upper plane one-third to one-fourth as long, 

 oblique ovate, cuspidate, much imbricated. Si)ikes square, i-i in. 

 long, ^ lin. diam. ; bracts ovate-cuspidate. 



Var. S. japonica Macnab in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. ix. 8. — 

 Pinnae less crowded, and not so decompound. Leaves of the 

 lower plane broad ovate, those of the main stem and pinnae nearly 

 as broad as long, those of the unbranched part of the stem rather 

 spreading. 



Var. S. argentea Spring Mon. ii. 154. — Lycopodium argenteum 

 Wall. — Larger and more compound, the banded portion often a 

 foot long. Leaves of the lower plane thinner in texture, ovate- 

 lanceolate, bright green on the upper surface, whitish green beneath. 



Var. hrachypoda Baker.- — Unbranched portion of the stem very 

 short ; pinnae less compound than in the type ; leaves rather 

 larger. 



Hab. The type, Japan, China, East Lidies (ascending to 

 6000 ft. in Kumaon), Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Isles, Philip- 

 pines, and New Guinea. Var. japonica, Japan. Var. argentea, 

 Malay Peninsula. Var. hrachypoda, Java. 



215. S. Whitmeei, n. sp. — Stems stiffly erect, -^-l ft. long, 

 decompound and oblong or deltoid in the upper half, the erecto- 

 patent pinnae with spaced erecto-patent simple and comj^ound 

 lower pinnules, the ultimate branchlets l-li in. long, ^ in. diam. ; 

 Leaves of the lower plane crowded, ascending, broad ovate, acute, 

 ^--1 liu. long, bright green, rigid in texture, very unequal-sided, 

 dilated, broadly rounded and much imbricated over the stem on the 

 upper side at the base, not ciliated ; leaves of the upper plane one- 

 half to one-third as long, oblique oblong, acute, much imbricated. 

 Spikes short, square, f lin. diam.; bracts ovate-lanceolate, strongly 

 keeled. 



Hab. Mountains of Samoa, Whitmec 177 ! 221 ! 



210. S. Pennula Spring Mon. ii. 160. — S. qUiidranguJa Presl. — 

 S. PresJiana Spring. — Lycopudium Fennnla Desv. — Stems stiffly 

 erect, 1-2 ft. long, simple in the lower half, deltoid and decompound 

 in the upper half, the lower pinnae deltoid, 3-4-pinnate, reaching a 

 length of half a foot, the contiguous final branchlets not more than 

 J-^ in. long, -^-f lin. broad. Leaves of the lower plane crowded, 

 erecto-patent, oblong-lanceolate, acute, of the branchlets ^ lin. 

 long, of the pinnae 1 lin., dark green, moderately firm in texture, 



