26 ON A NEW SELAGINELLA FROM NEW GUINEA, 



Also a new record to * 105. — P. lobatum PresL The small form 



(genuinum Syme) by the Findhorn, + 95. 



Athyrium Filix-fcemina Both., var. convexum (Newm.). Loch 

 Maree, + 105. — A. alpestre Milde, var. obtusatum Syme. Corrie 

 Leacainn, * 96. 



Osmunda regalis L. * 105. 



Botrychium Lunaria L. + 105. 



Lycopodium clavatumh. t 94. — L. complanatum L., " Hook, fil." 

 Cairngorms, * 94, * 96, * 105. — L. alpinum L. f 94. — L. Selago L. 

 Loch A'an, + 94. — L. Selago L., var recarvum Syme. Ben Slioch, 

 * 105. Loch Brandy, 90. — . L. selaginoides L. Glen Avon, 94. 



lsoetes lacustris L. Loch Ennich, large form. Loch Garten. 

 And a small form in Loch Morlich, 96 f. 



Eqidsetum sylvaticum L., var. capillars Wahl. Kingussie. Ard- 

 vroilach, * 96. I also saw this in * 93, North Aberdeen. — E. hyemale 

 L. Near Boat of Garten, 96. 



Nitella flexilis Agardh. Spey at Aviemore, and Loch Mal- 

 lachie, 96 *. 



Chara fragilis Desv. Loch Phitiulais, 96 *. 



Several critical Graminae, &c, are in Mr. Arthur Bennett's 

 hands. 



ON A NEW SELAGINELLA FROM NEW GUINEA. 



By Baron von Mueller and J. G. Baker. 



The following very distinct new species of Selaginella has lately 

 been collected by the botanist of the Cuthbertson Expedition (Mr. 

 W. Sayer) on the mountains of New Guinea. It belongs to the 

 subgenus Stachygynandrum, to the series Caidesceyites, and to the 

 group FlabellatcB near 5. usta and caulescens. 



*229. Selaginella angustiramea, F. M. et Baker, n.sp. — 



Stem slender, continuous, stiffly erect, under a foot long, simple in 

 the lower quarter, tripinnate in the upper three-quarters ; pinnse 

 erec to -patent, oblong-deltoid, 2-3 in. long; ultimate branches 

 sometimes 1--1| in. long, including the leaves not more than 

 l-16th in. diam. Leaves of the lower plane crowded, firm in 

 texture, erecto-patent, ovate, subobtuse, l-24th in. long; of the 

 upper plane rather shorter, more ascending, oblique, ovate, acute. 

 Spikes short, terminal on the branchlets, l-24th in. diam. ; bracts 

 ovate, acute, strongly keeled. 



New Guinea; Mount Obree, alt. 7000 ft., W. Sayer. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Botany op the Steep Holmes. — Staying at Weston-super- 

 Mare a few days during the past summer, I took the opportunity of 

 visiting the Steep Holmes, an island in the Severn. It is a rock of 

 about one mile and a half in circumference, and in many places 



