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Selaginella (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 409-12, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

S. gracilis (slender). stems 2ft. to 3ft. long, sub-erect, pinnately branched, rather rough; pinnae narrow-lanceolate, 4in. to 5in. long; pinnules simple, the lower ones 1in. long, 1/8in. broad. l. bright green, ovate-falcate; stipular ones narrow-lanceolate, cuspidate, parallel and close-set. spikes terminal, tetragonal, 1/2in. to 1in. long. South Sea Islands, 1886. An elegant, stove species.

S. perelegans (very elegant). The correct name of this plant is S. inaequalifolia perelegans (under which it is described on p. 411, Vol. III.) See Fig. 61, p. 601, for which we are indebted to Messrs. W. and J. Birkenhead.

S. tassellata (tasselled). stems erect; branches and branchlets flat, closely pinnate, the tips furnished with fertile, quadrangular spikelets about 1 1/2in. long, giving the plant a tasselled appearance. Brazil, 1887. Stove. See Fig. 62, p. 603, for which we are indebted to Mr. Wm. Bull. S. viridangula (green-angled). stems sub-erect, sarmentose, 3ft. to 4ft. long; pinnae deltoid, 1ft. long, erecto-patent; pinnules with simple upper and compound lower erecto-patent tertiary divisions; ultimate segments usually 1/2in. to 1in. long, bright green at base. l. of the lower plane contiguous or nearly so on the branchlets, lanceolate-falcate, acute, 1/8in. to 1/5in. long (1/4in. long and much spaced on the pinnae), bright green, dilated; leaves of the upper plane very small, distinctly cuspidate. spikes square, 1in. to 2in. long; bracts strongly keeled. Mountains of Fiji, 1884. Stove.