FAMILY V, SELAGINELLACE/E 
P LANTS small, leafy, with leafy, quadrangular spikes, bear- 
ing spore cases, (sporangia), with two kinds of spores, those 
containing the smaller or microspores representing the an- 
thers in flowering plants, and the larger or macrospores represent- 
ing the pistil. One genus, and with us two or three species. 
SELAGINELLA Beatjv. 
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212. S. rupestrfs (L. ) Spring. Plants growing in tufts, gray- 
ish green, resembling a moss ; stems dividing into many branches ; 
leaves densely imbricated, bristle tipped. Dry, exposed rocks; 
common. Early September. Generally distributed throughout 
the world. 
Illustrated in Gray’s Manual. 
214. S. selaginoides (L.) Link. Sterile stems creeping, slen- 
der ; fertile stems larger ascending, unbranched, one-spiked ; leaves 
lanceolate, ciliate. Besembles Lycopodium inundatum. Appears 
to have been found in our limits by Pursh only, who reported the 
plant from New Hampshire nearly a century ago. As it is frequent 
in Canada it is to be expected along our northern border. Early 
in September Northern portions of Europe and America in damp 
places 
Illustrated by Anne Pratt as Lycopodium selaginoides ; also in 
“English Botany,” and Hooker’s “British Ferns.” 
