Descriptions of the Species. 
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17 1. S. tectissima. Leaves half-line long, strongly ciliated on the upper 
side at the base. Smaller leaves cuspidate. Spike half- line diameter. 
172. S. Mackenii. Leaves one line long, shortly ciliated on the upper 
side at the base ; smaller leaves not cuspidate. Spike one line diameter. 
173. S. Cooperi. Leaves one line long, strongly ciliated on the upper side 
at the base ; smaller leaves cuspidate. Spikes quarter-inch long, one 
line diameter. 
The third section is altogether unknown to me, and the 
descriptions given are from Baker’s “ Fern Allies,” as also is that 
of S. depressa. 
166. Selaginella pumila. Spring. 
Plate CLVII. Fig. 2.-3. Forms, natural size. 
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. Schlech- 
tendal figures, without any difference except size, vars. pygmaeum 
and bryoides, the latter being the larger and more procumbent 
plant. 
Selaginella pumila. Spring. Mon. II. 60 ; Baker, Fern Allies, 35 ; 
Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 192 ; Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr. No. 967. 
Lycopodium pumilum. Schl. Adum. 6, tab. 3. 
Lycopodium pygmseum. Kaulf.; Kze. Linn. 10.6; Pappe and Rawson, 
49. 
Lycopodium bryoides. Kaulf. 
South Africa only, filling small damp mud holes ; rare and 
local. 
