_ A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 87 
_ the face, jointed at the nodes, a ae a, ae the 
branches copiously compound. Leave rat r plane much 
spaced, spreading, btn! lanceolate, acu fat in fini: very 
unequal-sided, the lower margin parallel with the midrib, the upper 
rounded, laterally attached, truncate at the base, very obscurely 
ciliated ; sage of the upper plane half as long, oblong, acute, not 
cuspidate. Spikes }-4 in. long, square, 1 lin. diam.; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, Senucty keeled 
Hab. New. nada, Lindig 1507! Holton 88 ! 
Andes of Gra 
ea Spruce 4798! 5676! Scarcely more than a variety of 
ingula 
1 . Kraussrana A. Br. in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1859, 22; 
S. mnioides Spring, ex parte; S. hortensis Mett. ; Lycopodium 
en Kunze; L. denticulatum Hort.—Stems ‘trailing, 4-1 
ong, jointed at the nodes, flat on the back, subterete on the 
face, copiously pinnate, with copiously compound erecto-patent 
branches. Leaves of the lower plane contiguous on the br anchlets, 
spaced on the branches and main stem, 0 oblong- -lanceolate, acute, 
4-4 in. long, bright green, moderately firm in texture, a little more 
produced on the upper side of the midrib, ciliated and broadly 
rounded at the base and a little imbricated over the stem; leaves 
of the upper plane a third as long, oblique ovate, acute, not ¢ cuspi- 
date. Spikes short, square, 3-1 lin. diam.; bracts ovate- caaplaictee 
strongly ke at d. 
H pe Colony, Natal, Fernando Po, Cameroon Mountains, 
Azores, Mderrs: and reported also from Sicily. The commonest 
species in gardens, where it is often grown under the name of 
“ Tycopodium denticulatum.”  S. Brownit Hort. Stansfield, is a 
dwarf variety from the Azores. I cannot distinguish from this 
species S. remotifolia Spring in Plant deen er 276, from the 
mountains of Java, and S. japonica Miquel, Prolus, 349, from Japan, 
one-third to ee as long, oblong, acute. Spikes short, 
square, } lin. diam.; bracts ovate cuspidate, strongly keele 
. Java, Zollinger 2011! A near ally of S. rotundifolia, 
114. §. Savatieri, n.sp.—S. denticulata Franch. & Savat. Enum. 
Jap. ii.- 198 , non Link. — Stems trailing, 2 in, long, sparingly 
pinnately branche, the branches erecto-patent, the lower forked, 
the upper simple. Leaves of the lower plane spaced, spreading, a 
line long, shicue ovate, — pale green, rather fir mer in texture 
