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provinces), extending north to Gefleborgs Ian, and reappearing in 

 Swedish Lapland. In Norway it extends up to 62° 35' (Blytt). 

 In Finland it occurs only in five of the botanical divisions in the 

 south up to 62° N. lat. It occurs in France, Belgium, Holland, 

 Denmark, Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, Tyrol, Transylvania, 

 Lombardy, Middle Eussia, and in a few small States bordering on 

 the military frontier of Austria. 



NOTES ON TWO SELAGINELLAS. 

 s^ By G. Hieronymus. 



1. Selaginella Commersoniana Spring, Mon. ii. in Mem. 

 Acad. Eoy. de Belgique, xxiv. (1849), p. 110. Syn. S. fissidentoides 

 Spring, I. c. p. Ill, pro parte quoad specimen a cl. Perville in 

 insula Mahe collectum ; Baker, Handb. Fern All. p. 51, pro parte; 

 non Lycopodium fissidentoides Hook, et Grew Enum. Fil. n. 151, 

 in Hook. Bot. Misc. S. sechellarum Baker, Fl. Maurit. 523, and 

 Handb. Fern All. p. 52, n. 72 (ex fragmento speciminis authentici) 



Distribution. The species is with certainty only known from 

 the Seychelles Islands. 



According to Spring the originals of Selaginella Commer- 

 soniana, collected by Commerson himself, came from the Philip- 

 pines. This information Spring took from the label accompany- 

 ing the type specimen in the Paris Museum. On the other hand, 

 the label of another of Commerson's originals received by the 

 Berlin Herbarium from Paris in 1820 has the note, " Cote de 

 Coromandel," in Kunth's handwriting. Both statements seem to 

 be wrong, the plant having probably been collected in the 

 Seychelles Islands, although I have not been able to ascertain 

 that Commerson visited those islands. However that may be, 

 it is certain that Commerson's plant matches exactly specimens 

 subsequently collected in the Seychelles Islands. Apart from 

 Commerson's plant, the following specimens have to be referred 

 to S. Commersoniana : — Mahe, Perville, no. 76 (1841, in Hb. Mus. 

 Paris and Hb. Berol.-Dahlem) ; Mahe, Coll. ignot. (January or 

 February, 1841 ; Hb. Link, Dahlem), originally labelled by Al. 

 Braun " Selaginella sechellarum," but later on recognized by him 

 as S. Commersoniana ; Kersten, Von der Decken's Exped. (August, 

 1863) ; J. Home, no. 157 (February, 1872), described by Baker as 

 S. sechellarum ; Barbarons, Mahe, distributed by the Botanic 

 Station as no. 4 ( May, 1910 ; Hb. Prince Roland Bonaparte, 

 Paris); Mahe, Stanley Gardiner (1908; Hb. Kew) ; Silhoutte, 

 Stanley Gardiner (1908, Hb. Kew), and H. C. Thomasset (Hb. 

 Kew). 

 O 2. S. Willdenowii (Desv.), Baker in Gard. Chron. 1867, 

 p. 950, and Handb. Fern All. p. 93. Syn. Lycopodium IcEvigatum 

 Willd., Spec. Plant, v. p. 45 (1810), non Lam. ; L. Willdenowii 

 * Desv. ap. Hook et Grev. Icones Fil. t. lvii. 



Distribution. Indo-Malayan region, from Madras to the 



