46 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
deflexed leaves with revolute margins and height crimson old stems. 
In exposed places the larger leaves are often wrapped round ‘the: 
branches, as in vagina 
14. S. HELVETICA Link Fil. Hort. Berol. 159; Lycopodium 
helveticum Linn. Sp. 1568; Schk. Krypt. t. 165; Jacq. Austr. 
96; L. fiicine Schrank. — Stems den sely matted, slender 
a 
oblong or ovate-oblong, 3—$ lin. long, obtuse or subacute, oblique, 
produced on the upper side, rounded on both sides at base, 
obscurely ciliated, flat, pale green, moderately firm in texture; 
leaves of the upper plane oblique ovate, acute, 4 as long, rather 
divergent. Spikes Sislinatiy peduncled, 3-1 in. lo ong, 1 lin. diam., | 
terete; bracts ovate, acute, imbricated, 4 lin. poten thin but frilly 
not acutely keeled. 
Central ee and through Siberia to Persia, North 
re and Japan 
. S. aceesta 4 Spring Mon. ii. 89. — Stems slender, trailing, 
toy matted, about an inch long, 2-8 times dichotomously _ 
forked. Leaves of lower plane spaced, except at the tip of 
branches, oblique ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 4. lin. long 
spreading, revolute, dark green, moderately firm in texture, reilly 
rounded on the upper side at the base, not ciliated; leaves of lower 
plane 4 as long, ovate, a ascending, imbricated, distine 
keeled. Spikes unknown 
at Kha 
Hist. Muse. t. 66, fig. 18, but not the Ceylon plant; L. “jason 
Willd.—Stems ore pale, trailing, densely matted, 2-3 in. long, 
copiously pinnately branched, with short erecto-patent flabellately 
compou basics Leaves of the lower plane close, oblique 
ovate-lanceolate, about a line long, —— et acute, moderately 
in texture, the midrib distinct in the upper part, the base 
broadly ronnded and distinctly ciliated on ‘he upper side, less” 
rounded and not ciliated on the —= leaves of the upper plane 
4 as long, oblique ovate, acute, ending, imbricated. Spikes — 
short, square, } lin. diam. ; bracts rs acute, much imbricated, 
strongly me sae 
Hab. a Mountains, Hook. fil. & Thomson! A near ally 
of ie siete well represented in the figure of Dillenius —_— 
(To be continued.) 
