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numerous leafy branches the leaves are distichous and spreading. 
Spikes ViTy numerous at the ends of the branches, about one inch 
long. Bracts closely imbricate, witliout spreading tips. Glenelg 
River. A common New Zealand plant, but the specimen from the 
above locality was barren, so the Australian habitat is doubtful. 
Selaginella, Spring. (The name is a diminutive of selago). 
Differing from Lycopodiums in having two kinds of spore-cases, 
small ones filled with minute, powdery spores called microspores, 
and larger containing one to six larger spores called macrospores] 
all opening in two to four valves and sessile in the axils of bracts 
in terminal spikes, 
S. Preissiana, Spring. (After Dr. Ludovicus Preiss.) An 
erect, slender plant of a few inches, divided at the base into simple 
forked branches leafy throughout. Leaves all alike, narrow, 
spreading, acuminate, about a Hue long, the greater part of the 
plant occupied by the fructification. Bracts in four rows. In the 
swamps, Stanthorpe, Queensland ; Fitzroy River, Grampians, 
Dandenong Ranges, Gippsland ; Ararat in Victoria ; South Esk 
River, Tasmania ; Blackwood and Swan Rivers, Western Australia. 
[Lycopodium gracillimum, Kunze in PI. Preiss.] 
^ S. uliginosa, Spring. (Plant found in marshy localities.)" 
Stems from a creeping base, two to twelve inches high, much 
branched. Leaves all similar, ovate-lanceolate, keeled, spreading- or 
reflexed, sometimes oblique, but not vertical. Spikes terminal, 
three to twelve hues long. Bracts smaller than the stem-leaves, in 
four rows, points but slightly spreading. Stradbroke Island/ 
Queensland ; and in many localities in N. S. Wales, Victoria and 
Tasmania. [Lycopodium uliginosum, Labill.] 
S. flabellata, Spring. (Referring to the flat fan shaped branches.) 
Rhizome creeping. Stems erect, very flat, leafy simple, for two to 
SIX inches, then broadly ovate flabelliform for six to ten inches 
much more branched. Leaves in four rows, two outer rows dis- 
tichously spreading nearly vertical, falcate, one to one and a half 
lines long, dark green on the upper side, pale and shining beneath, 
inner rows not half so long, semicordate, fine pointed, converging 
over tbe rhachis. Spikes three to nine fines long, slender. Bracts 
keeled, fine pointed, imbricate in four rows. Rockingham and 
Irinity Bays, and Daintree River in Queensland, forming dense 
fringes to the margins of streams. [Lycopodium flabellatum, 
Linn. J 
S. concinna, Spring. (Name from the neat appearance of 
plant.) Stems creeping, slender, pinnately divided, leafy through- 
out, branches shortly ascending. Larger leaves in two rows, 
distichously spreading, oblong, obtuse or acute, one to one and a 
halt lines long, scarcely cordate at the base ; inner rows smaller 
ovate, airpressed. Spikes terminal, four to eight lines long, about 
one fine diameter. Bracts keeled, acuminate, imbricate in four rows, 
the^ tips usually spreading. Brisbane River, Rockingham Bay, 
Daintree River, York Peninsula in Queensland. [Lycopodium 
concmnum, Swartz.] l j r 
