A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 45 
moderately firm in texture, flat, with an obscure midrib, the upper 
side pia A and ciliated at the base, where it is imbricated over 
the stem, the lower rounded; leaves of upper plane half as long, 
oblique- sae subacute, ascending. Spikes short, square, 4 lin. 
m. ovate, acute, much imbricated, strongly keeled. 
pa in mountain woods, Maries ! Midway between 
denticulata and delicatissima 
1. §. vaginatTa Spring, Mon. ii. 87. — Stems densely matted, 
pale, trailing, 2-8 in. long, with distant erecto-patent slightly 
compound branches. Leaves of the lower plane close, erecto- 
patent, obligas: ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, much incurved, 
firm in texture, ciliate-denticulate on all the stad cordate and 
more conspicuously ciliated on the upper side at the base, where it 
is much imbricated over the Seis a little rounded on the lower 
side; midrib obscure; leaves of the upper plane half as long, 
asce nding, imbricated, ovate- enepaaat. ikes copious, sessile, 
ic 4-+ in. long, ? lin. diam. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, strongly 
keeled 
Hab. Bootan and Khasia Mountains, Grigith! Moulmein, 
Parish 148! Neilgherries, Perottet! L. ciliare as MSS. is a 
form with laxer more spreading leaves and longer 
; penTicuLATA Link, Fil. Berol. 159; Lara sti 
ticulatum Linn. Sp. ont lao Muse. t. — Stem 
— matted, pale, trailing, Ee renee. a length of : ft. ions 
innately branched, the lo nches copiously flabellately 
caiooeie . Leaves of lower — close or slightly spaced, broad 
ovate, Irae subacute, $—1 in. long, spreading or erecto-patent, 
moderately firm in texture, flat, sca cordate on the upper 
side at the base, much imbricated over the stem, rounded on the 
lower ; leaves of upper plane half as long, oblique ovate, pgp ae 
rather diverging. Spikes — square, about 4 in. long, 4 lin 
iam.; bracts ovate, acute, much imbricated, strongly keeled. 
Hab editerranean region from Madeira and the Canaries to 
Syria. The Cape plant i included here by Spring is a distinct 
species. SS. Kraussiana, often called denticulata in gardens, is 
totally different. e have a specimen from the island of Elba 
with a distinctly platystichoid spike. The whole plant, in exposed 
pla sometimes turns bright red when old. 
13. §. moneHorica Bapeoekt Beitr. iu. 32. — Stems ve 
slender, wi ys trailing, reaching a length of 3-1 ft., copiously 
inn e e 
compound. Theives of the lower plane crowded or rather spaced, 
erecto-patent, ore oblique, 4 lin. long, firm in texture, broadl 
rounded and cilia on the upper side at the base, where it is 
sebieteatod over the stem; midrib distinct; leaves of the upper 
art half as long, ascending, oblique oblong. Spikes sessile, 
in. long, ¢ lin. diam., square; bracts deltoid, acute, crowded, 
with a raised kee 
- North China; first gathered by Sir G. Staunton between 
Pekin and Jehol. A near ally of 9. denticulata. Var. Rossii Baker, 
from the province of Sching-king, differs by its need strongly 
