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Stem extensively creeping with short ascending branches, leaves 
linear awlshaped, tipped with a fine bristle. Spikes long-stalked, 
linear cylindrical. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—61° (!). 
Geogr. area: North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Ladronean 
Islands, Hawaii. 
25. L. complanatum L. 
Rosenv. Till. p. 737; Fl. D. t. 2671. L. Chamaecyparissus A. Br., Lge. 
Consp. FI. Groenl. p. 184; Fl. D. 2672. 
Stem extensively creeping, often subterranean, branches erect 
many times forked, forming fanlike bushes. Branches flattened. 
Leaves in 4 ranks, only in the upper third part free, those on the 
edges keeled, somewhat spreading and with toothlike tips, those 
on the flat smaller appressed. Spikes stalked cylindrical, generally 
2 or more together. Fertile leaves ovate-cordate abruptly short pointed. 
The typical form is seldom in Arctic regions, more common 
is the form, L. chamaecyparissus A. Br., with more densely bushy 
branches, which are narrower, and the leaves on the edges and the 
flats more similar so that the branches are less flat. 
A form with sessile spikes is f. fallax Cel. 
Am.: West Greenl. 60°—69° 14’, f. fallax at 60° 27’ and 62°58’ (). 
Geogr. area: North America, North and Central Europe, Appenines, 
Asia Minor, Northern Asia. 
26. L. alpinum L. 
Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and Baff. Bay p. 87; Lge. Consp. FI. 
Groenl. 184; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 498; F. Kurtz, Fl. d. Tschuktschenh. 
p. 482. Fl. D.t. 79. 
Stem extensively creeping, generally epiterranean. Branches 
erect, many times forked, forming dense bushes. Branches almost 
regularly 4 edged with equal, in the upper half free leaves. Spikes 
sessile solitary. Fertile leaves ovate, long and obtusely pointed. 
Am.: Baffin Land, West Greenl. 60°—70° (!), East Greenl. 60°—70° (!). 
Eur.: Samoyede Land. As.: Chukches Land (}). 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Iceland, Fierées, British 
Islands, Scandinavia, Northern Russia, Pyrenees, Appenines, Asia Minor, 
Northern Asia. 
Order V. SELAGINELLACEAE Mett. (By O. GELERT). 
The order consists only of the genus: 
1. SELAGINELLA P. Beauv. 
27. §S. selaginoides (L.) Link. 
S. spinosa P. Beauy.; Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 183; Lycopodium 
selaginoides L., Fl. D. t. 70. 
