22 Selaginellaceae 



SELAGINELLACE^J 



Selaginella Family 



Moss-like plants with branching stems and 

 scale-like leaves which are many ranked 

 and uniform, or 4-ranked and of two types 

 spreading in two planes. Sporanges solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves which are so ar- 

 ranged as to form more or less quadrangular 

 spikes. 



Sterile stems, prostrate and 



Selaginella . n j 1 j r 



creeping, small and slender; fer- 



selagmoides 



(L.) Link. ^ e stems thicker, ascending, 

 Low Selagi- simple 1-3 inches high; leaves 

 nella. lanceolate, acute, spreading, 



sparsely spinulose-ciliate ; spikes solitary at 

 the ends of the fertile branches, bracts lax, 

 ascending lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 strongly fringed. 



A light green moss-like plant growing in 

 wet sandy grounds in the Rockies; not 

 infrequent. 



