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207. Selaginella PUMILA Spring. 
Plate 182. Figs. 2, 3. Forms, nat. size, b Leaf x 5. c Bract x 5. 
Plant annual; stems erect or sub-erect, in dense tufts; one 
to four inches long, very slender, simple or slightly branched ; 
the branches alternate, a quarter to half inch long, and each 
as well as the terminal one terminated by one or two fertile 
spikes, a quarter to half inch long, and one line diameter. 
Leaves few, scattered, all of one kind, and produced on all 
sides of the stem, at first green, cordate, ovate, pointed, 
spreading, entire, and about one line long and half a line 
broad ; afterwards reflexed, yellow, and very much smaller. 
Bracts in regular lines; nearly circular, with a long spreading 
point. Roots at the base only. Schlechtendal figures, without 
any difference except size, vars. pygmaeum and bryoides, the 
latter being the larger and more procumbent plant. 
Selaginella pnmila. Spring, Mon. 2, 60; Baker, Fern Allies , 35; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 192; Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr. No. 967; Sim, Ferns 
of S. Afr., 1st ed., 249. 
Lycopodiwn pumilum. Schl. Adum. 6, tab. 3. 
Lycopodium pygmaeum Kaulf. Kze, Linn. 10, 6; Pappe and Rawson, 49. 
Lycopodimn bryoides. Kaulf. 
South Africa only, filling small damp mud-holes ; rare 
and local. 
West. — Sandy soil, west base of Devil’s Mountain (Bergius); Hot- 
tentot’s Holland (P. and R.); Paarlberg, Stellenbosch (Drege); 
Claremont (Marloth); Knysna Lake (Mund and Maire); Riversdale 
(R. Schl. 1724); Vogelgat, 400 ft (R. Schl. 9537); Wynberg, 100 ft 
(R. Schl. 1572); Grootvadersbosch, Swellendam (P. and R.). 
East.— -Port Elizabeth (Mrs T. V. Patterson, 2341). 
Natal. — (Drege, Kuhn); not known to Buchanan, nor to us. 
208. Selaginella rupestris Sprengel. 
Plate 179. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 
Stems two to six inches long, one-half to one line diameter, 
including leaves, mostly procumbent, rather rigid and coria- 
ceous, repeatedly pinnately branched, rooting freely, and 
growing in dense masses under stones on the top of flat 
rock. Leaves imbricated 9.II round the stem, and all alike, 
