1879.] 
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coloured stem, and in its general aspect, tlie eye 
at once detecting a difference which is not 
easily expressed in words. It is, moreover, 
dwarfer and denser in its habit of growth, and 
much more fructiferous. The stems are erect, 
about a foot high, and nearly round, pinkish- 
red, the branches being alternate and horizontal, 
nerve takes a falcate curve to the acute apex, 
the anterior side of the leaf broader but more 
cut away at the base, and the posterior side 
more produced towards the base and rounded. 
The small leaves on the upper surface are ovate, 
sharply acuminate, obliquely affixed, subparal¬ 
lel, of a deep green, as is the rest of the foliage. 
Selaginell.v 
of a dull deep green, paler, and rather glossy 
beneath, the upper ones rather densely packed, 
ovate, with a stalk-like base, closely bipinnate, 
the secondary branches being mostly forked 
near the tips. The leaves set in the axils 
of the furcations of the stem, are obo- 
vate and bluntish, with a mucro; those of 
the stem are rather thinly scattered, those of 
the growing branches less so, and those of the 
branchlets rather closely set and deflected from 
the plane of the branch, so that its surface 
appears as if shallowly ridged. The latter are 
oblong, with the upper margin straight, and 
the lower margin rounded ; the prominent 
PERELEOANS. 
The fructifications are very copious, a quad¬ 
rangular spike nearly, or c^uite, an inch long, 
terminating each of the numerous little branch- 
lets. It has been imported from Ceylon by 
Sir. W. Bull, of Chelsea, to whom w^e are in¬ 
debted for the illustration.—T. Moore. 
DECORATIVE CYPERACEA^T 
« HE Cyperacece recommended by Herr 
Bouche from a decorative point of view 
(see p. 121) are the following :— 
• CvpERDS liUCiDUs, from New Holland, 
a very handsome plant, 24-28 in. high, with 
dark green glossy leaves, and panicles of 
