SELAGTNELLACE^]. 11 



Chester, Derby and York, north to Orkney and Shetland. Rare in 

 the south, but frequent in the west, middle and north of Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 inches long, rarely more. Leaves bright green, 

 shining -^ to y^ inch long, with a faint midrib, and commonly with 

 1 or 2 projecting spine-like serratures or teeth, which however are 

 more conspicuous in the leaves towards the apex of the branches than 

 on those towards the base, where as well as on the stem leaves they 

 are sometimes absent. Spike-bearing branches 1 to 4 inches high, 

 erect from a decumbent base. The spike is from ^ to 1^ inch long. 

 Bracts y 1 ^- to ^ inch long, broad at the base, and much more strongly 

 spinous-ciliate and more acuminated than the leaves, at first adpressed, 

 afterwards spreading. Macrosporangia about ^ inch in diameter, 

 3-sided. Microsporangia placed in the axils of the upper branches, 

 and smaller than the macrosporangia. 



Lesser Alpine Clubmoss. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



SELAGINELLA HELVETICA. Link 



A specimen of this is included in Sherard's . ' Herbarium,' but 

 without any record of locality ; with it, according to the Rev. 

 W. W. Spicer, there is a label in the form of a paragraph from 

 Ray's 'Synopsis,' ed. hi. From this it would seem Lobel (1570) 

 supposed it to have been gathered on the Mendip Hills, Somerset ; 

 and Merrett (1667) by the Thames side at the Neathouses and 

 Kingsbridge, Middlesex. The last certainly an error; the former 

 probably so. See Phyt. 1851, p. 384. 



ORDER XCIL— LYCOPODIACEJ]. 



Herbs or small shrubs, often with creeping woody branched or 

 forked stems, having adventitious roots, or rarely with subterranean 

 branches apparently performing the office of roots, in one genus with 

 tuberous roots. Leaves small, often resembling those of Juniper, in 

 one genus all radical and subulate. Sporangia all similar, placed in 

 the axils of modified leaves or bracts, arranged in terminal spikes, 

 which often resemble small cones, more rarely scattered over the 



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