88 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
long, oblique ovate, ike not cuspidate. Spikes 4-1 in. long, © 
$-1 lin. diam., sometimes forked; bracts ovate cuspidate, similar 
in texture to the Jeaves, neither dense nor acutely keeled. Macro- 
spores finely echinulat 
Hab. Japan, in the island of Nippon, Savatier! Very n 
nipponica, from which it differs by its more cordate leaves anid 
muricated macrospores. 
115. 8. yreponica Franch. & Savat. Enum. Jap. ii. 199.—Stems 
wea 2-4 in. long, pinnately ad the branches erecto- 
ng, 
S. weg ie rere more produce the upper side 
oblique oblong, acute, not ‘caspidad e. Spikes 4 4-1 in. lon 
diam. ; bracts gaitor or slightly dimorphic, similar to the leaves 
in texture, ovate cuspidate, not dense, nor strongly keeled 
Hab. Japan, in the island of Nippon, Thunberg ! Savatier | 
Bissett! Differs from 8. imtegerrima mainly in its laxer, less 
acutely-keeled bracts. There is a specimen of this from Thunber, 
in the Smithian herbarium, so oie . is agabulsss the Lycopodium 
ornithopodioides of his ‘ Flora J apon 
116. S. mnreGerRma Spring Monop: li. 79; L. integerrimum and 
ornithopodioides Hook. & Grev. — Stem trailin very slender, 
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crowded and ascending on the branchlets, neeaion! and Spee a or 
deflexed on the main stem, oblique oblong, subacute, 1-12th i 
leaves of the upper plane one-third to one-half as lo ong, oblique, 
ovate, acute. Spikes square, 1-4 in. long, 1-1} lin. diam. ; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, strongly ke ele 
Hab. n the warmer parts of the island, Kenigj 
Gardner! Thwaites 8280! This is the Lycopodium ornithopodioides 
f the Linnean herbarium. We have closely allied plants from 
Japan, gathered by Oldham; from the Macalisberg range, in Sout 
frica, ered Sanderson; fro ourbon, gathered by Dr 
er 
cuspidate; and from Chusan, gathered by Alexander, with more 
rigid smaller acute leaves of both kinds, which will likely prove 
distinct ; but none of the specimens are in fruit, and they may be 
aoe stachyo id. 
117. 8. exieva Spring Mon. ii. 288: Lycopodium aristatum 
ee ? S. aristata J. Scott? non Spring.—Stems densely tufted, 
in. long, very slender, decumbent, with slender root-fibres in 
the ‘lowes half, closely pinnate, with compound lower branches. _ 
