44 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA, 
Carolina, is a dwarf form with leaves more gibbous on the back, — 
short cilia, and a sudden denticulate awn. L. struthioloides Nutt., 
from California, has also very thick short leaves and a sudden awn, 
combined with a suberect h we and more compound branches than 
usual. L. bryoides Nutt. is a very dwarf form with decumbent 
main stems, with short — stout ascending leafy branches. 
. §. orecana Eaton in 8. Wats. Bot. Calif. ae — Stems 
unifor a; inear- lanceolate, green, convex and creed on ‘the back, 
sparsely denticulate, scarcely a line long, acute but not bristle- 
tipped. Spikes square, very slender, resembling the sterile 
branchlets. 
Hab. Oregon, hanging from branches, in — forests, in 
dense 7 greets ‘Bisov red by General Kautz in 
8. 
oLENTA Spring Mon 57; Cgeopsie san~ a 
GUIN ii. 
guinolentum Linn. Sp. 1567 ; genes Acad. il. 868, tab. 4, fig. 26.— 
—Stems densely waited, often forked at the base, very slender, 
bright red, spreading or ascending, reaching } ft. or more m 
length, copiously pinnately ibeaiehol: the branches short, ascending 
and again compound, Leaves decussate, oblong, obtuse, with a 
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c e Spikes a in. long, } lin. diam., square; 
ciel thick, deltoid, tients 4 lin. long, nek imbricated, sot : 
ab. Eastern Siberia, in rocky mountainous eS ae and 
rrseetanitg lately by Dr. Aitchison in the Kurr y: 
Subgenus I1.—SrachyGynanpRium. 
ries I.—DxrcumBenrtes. 
Group 1. a 
a. -Be snorrogs Spring Mon. ii. 90; Lycopodium —— | 
Blume. — Stems very slender, ata. matted, 2-3 long, 
— egaokod, the branches slightly compound. ‘Leave of 
the lower plane close, suborbicular, obtuse, 4 lin. long, firm an 
rigid in aes. pale green, entire, subdecurrent on the upper sas 
at the base, flat, with a distinct midrib; those of the upper plane 
much smaller, obovate, opeae. Spikes unknow Ss 
Hab. Mountain Most hig S. sii 5 but the © 
leaves are crowded at ese in textur 
10. §. Mariesii Baker, n. sp.— si me CoTety matted, very 
slender, trailing, 2-3 in. long, green or "bri right red, distantly 
middle and lower art of the branches; not to those of Pig hale stem, whieh, ; 
especially in the decompound = "Glen differ widely from those of the 
branches in shape and direction 
