A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 99 
Hab. In North West Peru on Mont Campana and Mont 
oe near Tarapota, Spruce 4625! 
4 acanthostachys, n. sp.—Stems very slender, trailing, 
angled on “both back and face, 2-4 in. long, copiously pinnate, the 
bra 
lanceolate, acute, 4-3 in. long, bright green and moderately firm 
in texture, ascending, spaced, except at the tip of the branchlets, 
a little more produced on the upper side of the distinct midrib, its 
edge shortly rigidly ciliated, its base very cordate and much im- 
bricated over the branch; leaves of the upper plane 4-4 as long, 
oblique i cuspidate, ‘incurved. Spikes copious, square, 4—1 in. 
long, 4-3 lin. diam.; bracts ovate-lanceolate, rigid, very acuminate. 
Hab. In North "West Peru, on Mont Campana, aha ! 
S. srevires Fée Fil. Bras. 226, tab. 75, fig. 1.—Stems 
trailing, 4-6 in. long, flat on the back, convex on the face, copiously 
innate, the lower branches elongated and copiously compound. 
Leaves of the lower plane crowded, spreading or rather ascending, 
Shlsasiactiaallts, subacute, 3-1 a long, bright green and mode- 
rately firm in texture, much more produced on the upper side of 
cordate and much imbricated over the branch; leaves of the upper 
plane 4-+ as long, broad ovate, with a long cusp. Spikes square, 
t-+j in. long, 3 lin. diam Dino ovate cuspidate, strongly keeled. 
a On the Tejuca Mountains, ea r Rio Janeiro, Burche . 
3008 ! ‘Serra das Orgaos, pre 2241 
42 . Lindbergii, n. sp.—Stems eee intermatted, 3-6 
in. long, terete on the back, angled on the face, forked low down, 
copiously pinnate, the branches ascending, the lower copiously 
compound. Leaves of the lower plane close or slightly spaced on 
the branches, spreading, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 3-1 lin. long, 
roduced on the upper side of the midrib, with a strongly 
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across the branch; texture moderately firm; upper border rather 
revolute; leaves of the upper panes a third as long, broad ovate, 
shortly cuspidate. Spikes copious, }—1 in long, 1 lin. diam., square ; 
bracts ovate, acute, strongly kee ed. 
Hab. Min inas arr ee Lindberg! In St. Paulo, on the 
Serra de ae Bure 
48. §S. ih nr a vaginata Liebm., non Spring.— 
Stems tailing ng, 1-3 in. cm a ously pinnately branched, with 
short copiously sameatit ae se patent branches. Leaves 
of the lower plane crowded, ascending, oblong- inn soaks acute, at 
most a line long, moder ately firm in te xture, more produced on the 
Coons side of the distinct midrib, shortly agi through the lower 
lf of the upper ae cordate pan an base so that the branch is 
hidden ; leaves of the r plan as lon er ovate, muc 
bricated, shortly eile: " Spikes ih 4 in. long, 4 lin. diam., 
not sharply square ; bracts ovate-lanceolate. 
exico, in the province of Vera Cruz, Liebmann ! 
4. S. serrens Spring Mon. ii. (102. — S. variabilis, varians, 
mutabilis, and jamaicensis, Hort. Lycopodium serpens, Desy.—Stems 
