Victorian Plants. 



SELAOINELLA, 



2127. Annual. 



Minute, erect ; branches few or occasionally none ; leaf-like 

 organs all uniform, opposite, spreading, extremely short, 

 mostly linear-lanceolar, pointed, hardly crowded, their 

 carinular venule faint ; spikes singly terminating branch- 

 lets, but often extending far downward ; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolar, spreading ; lower spore-caselets of greater size,, 

 containing large spores normally to the number of four. 



S. Preissiana. 

 Perennial. 



Dwarf, erect or ascending ; branches seldom numerous ; 

 leaf -like organs all uniform, opposite or nearly so, quite 

 small, spreading in four rows, mostly ovate-lanceolar y 

 their carinular venule prominent ; spikes terminating, 

 branchlets, rather elongated, somewhat quadrangular ;. 

 bracts lanceolar-ovate, pointed, protruding at the base ;. 

 lower spore-caselets of greater size, containing large 

 spores normally to the number of four. S. uliginosa. 



LYCOFODIUB1. 



2128. Leaves of two forms, each kind biseriate. 



Alpine, dwarf, partly creeping ; branches ascending, some- 

 what flattened ; leaves small, slightly decurrent, in two- 

 layers, the larger almost semilanceolar, somewhat in- 

 curved, the smaller leaves stipule-like, quite narrow,, 

 occupying the lower side of the stem and branches,, 

 appressed in a direction parallel to that of the larger 

 leaves, blunt or somewhat acute, very thin upwards ; 

 spikes ellipsoid - cylindrical, terminal, often solitary, 

 nearly or quite sessile ; bracts in four rows, almost 

 rhomboid, often blunt and sometimes minutely append! - 

 culated ; spore-caselets renate-orbicular. 



L. scariosum. 



Leaves all of one form, equally crowded all around 

 the stem and branches ... ... ... ... 2129 s 



2129. Spikes lateral. 



Often creeping at its lower portion, thence ascending or 

 erect, scantily branched ; leaves small, linear, gradually 

 pointed, spreading, generally somewhat incurved ; spikes 

 solitary, sessile, almost ellipsoid-cylindrical, somewhat 

 tetragonous; bracts appressed, pale-yellowish, finally 

 brownish, roundish, but short-pointed, forming four rows ; 

 spore-caselets renate. L. laterale. 



Spikes terminal ... ... ... ... ... 2130 



