80 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
about 859 feet, insuffiviont, apparently, to harbour any of the truly 
alpine species found a few miles southwards. Its area is not muc 
less than that of Fanet, but its flora is much scantier. I wa 
icki e 
n, 
slats coe ge except perhaps a remarkable variety of Kuphrasia 
officinalis. Some curious forms of this and other plants occur also 
mts Malin Head. Huphrasia sometimes occurs with long spikes, 
ionraes large; another variety has no stem, but forms an hemi- 
spherical body of white flowers, lying on the ground like a poe 
snowball about two or three inches across, perhaps due to con- 
ine 
plant. Triodia decumbens grows in prostrate patches, its stem about 
three inches long. Plantago lanceolata has thick leaves which 
almost conceal their ribs, and become so narrow as almost to equal 
in width and resemble those of wide-leaved alpine forms of Plantago 
maritima, which also occur. Lastrea Filix-mas is very stunted and 
shaggy, equivalent to alpine var. abbreviata ; and Keleria grows on 
the west side, from two to three inches in height, and is almost 
unrecognizable. On the other hand, Asplenium marinum, Sedum 
Rhodiola, and Ligusticum scoticum attain great perfection ; Mertensia 
are more plentiful in this district than elsewhere in Innishowen. 
Vicia hirsuta. Stachys arvensis. 
Radiola Millegrana. Armeria vulgaris. 
Sedum meg Plantago maritima. 
8. anglicum. ¥. pier fi 
Cri Aeanviih maritimum. Beta ma 
Ligusticum scoticum. tices shuleseenlin 
Myosotis cespitosa. Asplenium marinum. 
Mertensia maritima. 
A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
By J. G. Baxzr, F.R.S., &e. 
(Continued from p. 46.) 
17. S. Barxiyr Baker Fl. Maur. 522.— Stems densely tufted, 
decumbent, not more than an inch long, copiously compound. 
Leaves of ap lower plane crowded, spreading, flat, oblong, obtuse, 
+ lin. long, firm in texture, minutely ciliate-denticulate, — 
