1270 BENGAL PLANTS. [Selaginella. 
often square, the bracts usually similar, si sometimes dimorphic 
like the leaves. Sporangia of two kinds, minute, orbicular, 
laterally compressed, oc. - ike inserted in the angles 
of bracts to form dense spikes at the ends of leafy branches ; 
ety 4 many, splitting across the apex in the wide 
meter; microspores dust-like, very numerous ; macrosporangia 
in and confined to base of spike, usually also 2-valved, containing 
4 or fewer macrospores; macrospores globose, chalky-white, with 
3 radiating ribs from the apex, developing a minute female pro- 
thallus which remains permanently attached to the spore. 
1159. Selaginella Spring. 
Characters those of the order. 
Ordinary leaves all similar, multifarious; bracts uniform .....- rupestris. 
Ordinary leaves of two kinds, tetrastichous and aes | in two planes, 
those of the upper plane einallet nd somewhat ascendin 
racts uniform ; stems erect, persistent, simple feline: “decompoun 
and frond-like aboy ..-pentagona. 
Bracts of two kinds ‘Vike the leaves, but the smaller ia in the same 
plane as the larger leaves; stems decumbent, fugacious, the branches 
simple or little compound pronifiora. 
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2862. SELAGINELLA RUPESTRIS Spring. 
ota Nagpur. 
A densely tufted herb. 
2863. SELAGINELLA PENTAGONA ie Wee 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; Ori 
An ascending or erect herb ; ene 1-1°5 feet long. 
2864. SELAGINELLA PRONIFLORA Bak. Lycopodium imbricatum 
F, 1. 747 (Ed. C. B. C.). 
re most of the provinces 
A small, prostrate, fiptetiinn herb; stems 1-4 in. long. 
Beng. Hatajhera. 
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