26 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
in texture, more produced on the upper side of the midrib, con- 
SeRabusly ciliated at the base, broadly rounded and imbricated 
over the stem on the upper side, slightly auricled on the lower; 
leaves of the upper plane a third a cee oblique oblong, with a 
long cusp. Spikes short, square, 4 lin. diam.; bracts ovate, 
strongly keeled 
In shady woods near the town of Panama, Seemann 81! 
8. A Spring Mon. ii., 104; Lycopodium diffusum 
Preal, Ossie aes a foot long, trailing, jointed at the nodes, flat 
on the back, suleate on the face, copiously pinnate, the branches 
erecto-patent, the lower with 5-6 short eee Leaves ue e 
lower plane patent, ovate-deltoid, very a nate, 3-4 m 
rigid, bright green, conspicuously ciliated at the a Wade, more e produced 
on the upper side of the midrib, rounded at the base on the upper 
side, cordate and sinietea on the lower; leaves of the upper plane 
a third as long, ovate-oblong, acuminate. Spikes short, square ; 
belts ovate-acuminate, strongly keeled. 
— anama, Henke. 
108. S. zuryyota A. Br. in Crypt. Nov. Gran., 877.—Stems 
trailing, a foot or more long, intel at the nodes, flat on the back, 
bisulcate on the face, copiously pinnate, the short erecto-patent 
ranches copiously compound. Leaves of the lower plane spaced 
even on the branches, ascending on the branchlets, lanceolate, 
acute, 4-4 in. long, bright green and moderately firm in texture, 
nearly equal-sided, not distinctly auricled nor viliated 1 nor imbri- 
cated over the stem at the base ; leaves of the upper plane a third 
as long, oblique ovate, with a short ¢ cusp. Spikes copious, square, 
4-4 in. long iam.; bracts ovate-cuspidate, strongly keeled. 
H ab. loath Rai, Hoffman mn 907! Guatemala, re 83! 
Empire state, common in damp places, Sutton Hayes 228 
. 8 mntowEes A. Br. in Planch. and Trian. “Cerne Nov. 
auricled on both sides; leaves of the upper plane ae as long, 
oblique ovate, pacba: not cuspidate. Spikes }-} in. long, square, 
lin. ts ovate acute, atectigty keeled. 
Hab. West Indies and Andes of Venezuela, New Granada, 
Eeuador and Bolivia. The locality of Moutitias, ‘given by Sieber 
ve me type, is no doubt a mistake. S. macrophylla A. Br., ‘ie cit-, 
e Andes of Bolivia, seems to be a tas luxuriant variety 0 
this ae. 
(To be continued.) 
