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The Ferns of South Africa. 
West. — Sandy soil, west base of Devil’s Mountain (Bergins), Hottentot’s 
Holland (P. and R.), Paarleberg, Stellenbosch (Drege), Claremont 
(Mar loth), Knysna Lake (Mund and Maire). 
Natal. — (Drege, Kuhn), not known to Buchanan. 
167. Selaginella rupestris. Sprengel. 
Plate CLIV. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Stems two to six inches long, one-half to one line diameter, 
including leaves, mostly procumbent, rather rigid and coriaceous, 
repeatedly pinnately branched, rooting freely, and growing in dense 
masses under stones on the top of flat rock. Leaves imbricated 
all round the stem, and all alike, one line long, lanceolate, ciliated, 
keeled, and hair-pointed ; spreading when wet, adpressed when 
dry. Fertile spike on the lower branches, not terminal, often in 
pairs ; half-inch long, half-line diameter, four angled, the bracts in 
four regular keeled rows, ovate pointed, ciliated, hair-pointed, 
adpressed. 
S. rupestris. Spreng. ; Baker, Fern Allies, 35 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 192 and 
212 ; Buchanan’s List, p. 27. 
S. rupestris, var. Caffrorum. Milde. Fil. Eur. 262. 
Lycopodium rupestre. Linn. Sp. 1564 ; Pappe and Rawson, 50. 
Lycopodium Dregei. Presl. 
Braun (in Kuhn, “Fil. Afr.,” 212) divides the African forms of 
this species into several sub-species receding from the American 
and Asiatic type ; but the distinctions are too finely cut, and one 
patch partly in shade and partly exposed gives at least two of his 
forms. 
He gives as South African forms : — 
/3. incurva. A. Br. MS. Green ; stems adpressed to the ground ; point 
of the leaves incurved, with the hair-point round upward, and denticu- 
late at the apex. Cilia twelve to twenty ; the lower long, the upper 
short and toothlike. 
A. capensis. Cilia twelve to fifteen, hair-point quarter the length of 
the lamina or less ; white. 
