SAGINA. 
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Pet. large not crowned deep crimson or purple with bluish- 
black longitudinal lines or streaks. Carpophore none. 
Suborder EL ALSENEiE. 
4. Sagena. L. 
* Sep. 4 spreading in fr. Pet. 4 or 0. Stam. 4. Styles 4. 
Caps. 4- valued. ( Saginella Koch.) 
1. S. PROCUMBENS L. 
Smooth cespitose or moss-like ; main-st. very short, barren 
branches or stolons elongate slender filiform procumbent or 
prostrate often rooting at the joints their ends ascending; 1. 
numerous crowded often fasciculate linear somewhat abruptly 
mucronate quite smooth; sep. obtuse much longer than the 
pet. rather shorter than the caps. ; fr. at first drooping then 
erect. — Brot. i. 213 ; Sm. E. FI. i. 238 ; EB. t. 880 ; Buch 196. 
no. 347; DC. i. 389; H. FI. Sc. i. 59; Presl 158; WB. i. 147; 
Koch 118; Bab. 49. 
/3. spinosa (Gibs.) Bab. 1. c. ; 1. very minutely ciliated-serrulate 
or spinulose at the edges ; sep. distinctly shorter than the caps. 
— An S. bryoides Frol, in Koch 1. c. P — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 
3, ccc ; GD. reg. 2, rr. Moist places on walls, banks, rocks &c., 
and in the turf on mountains, everywhere. At all seasons. — 
A small moss-iike dark green pi. like a Polytrichum or Dicra- 
num, forming tufts or patches 1 or 2 in. high ; 1. scarcely half 
an inch long and half a line wide, flat above, convex beneath, 
more or less fasciculate especially on the barren shoots, often 
forming terminal rose-like tufts. Pet. irregular small much 
shorter than the sep. white, sometimes 0. Sep. spreading cross- 
wise below the ripe caps. 
2. S. APETALA L. 
Barren shoots or stolons none, st. much and regularly branched 
dichotomously from the base, branches more or less erect slender 
filiform stiff and straight regularly forked ; 1. few remote very 
small and inconspicuous in pairs and not fasciculate linear very 
narrow gradually or acuminato-mucronate ; sep. obtuse much 
longer than the pet. and shorter than the caps. ; fr. always 
erect.— Sm. E. FI. i. 240; EB. 881; DC. i. 389; H. FI. Sc. i. 
60; WB. i. 146, 7; Koch 118; Bab. 49.— Var. : 
a. ylandulosa ; glandular-pubescent ; 1. ciliate at the base. 
(3. glabra, Bab. ed. 1. p. 45 ; nearly or quite smooth ; 1. not 
ciliate. 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, r; PS. 3 or 4, r. Dry sunny spots. 
a, in garden walks at the Valle near Funchal, anil on the walls 
