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SELAGINELLACEJE. 
\_Selaginella. 
7. S. concinna, Spring, Monog. Lycop. ii. 199. Stems decumbent, 
not articulated, trailing to a length of a foot or more, with many dis- 
tant short more or less ascending compound branches. Larger leaves 
oblique oblong-lanceolate, rather curved upwards, with the point at the 
upper corner, in. long, bright green, moderately firm in texture, 
entire, obscurely ciliated, those of the final branchlets imbricated ; 
smaller leaves a third as long as the larger, oblique obovate, with a 
long mucro. Spikes J-l in. long, tetragonous ; bracts uniform, del- 
toid, strongly cuspidate. Lycopodium concinnum, Sw.s Bojer, Hort. 
Maur. 425. 
Mauritius, common in damp grassy places. Also Bourbon, Madagascar, and 
Tropical Asia. 
8. S. serrulata, Spring , Monog. Lycop . ii. 202. Stems decumbent, 
not articulated, trailing to a length of a foot or more, the fertile 
branches short and cernuous, the sterile longer and more compound 
Larger leaves oblique oblong-lanceolate, rather curved upwards, with 
the point at the upper corner, | in. long, firm in texture, ciliated and 
denticulate, those of the final branchlets imbricated ; smaller leaves a 
third as long as the outer, oblique obovate, with a mucro. Spikes f 
in. long, tetragonous ; bracts uniform, deltoid, cuspidate. Lycopodium 
serrulatum, Lesv. ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 425. 
Mauritius, on mossy . rocks of the high mountains, Commerson , Bojer. Also 
Bourbon. 
9. S. falcata, Spring , Monog. Lycop , ii. 181. Stems 1-lf foot high, 
erect, not articulated, simple in the lower half, copiously branched with 
crowded erecto-patent branches and branchlets in the upper half. 
Larger leaves oblique oblong-lanceolate, acute, with the point placed 
at the upper coiner, slightly ascending, T V-| i n - long, moderately firm 
in texture, those of the final branchlets slightly imbricated ; smaller 
leaves a third as long as the larger, oblique oblong, cuspidate. Spikes 
in. long, slender, tetragonous ; bracts uniform, deltoid, cuspidate. 
S. membranacea, deliquescens and tereticaulis, Spring , Monog. Lycop. 
ii. 178-180. Lycopodium canaliculatum and fruticulosum, Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 425. 
Mauritius, in woods of the Pouce range, etc., frequent. Also Bourbon and 
Madagascar. 
10. S. brachystachya, Spring , Monog. Lycop , ii. 256. Stems 1-lf 
foot long, decumbent and sending out roots in the lower half, ascend- 
ing and copiously branched in the upper half. Larger leaves oblique 
oblong, i in. long, obtuse, spreading or rather ascending, dark green, 
membranous, those of the final branchlets placed edge to edge ; smaller 
leaves a third as long as the larger, oblique, obovate, with a mucro, 
distichous. Spikes in. long, T V in. broad, with the ligulate obtuse 
larger bracts three times as long as the microsporangia. 
Mauritius, in shady places, Bojer ! Also Ceylon and East Himalayas. 
