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P. 66. Sphagnum Wulfianuui Girgensohii. 



Plantac robustiores, strictae, semipedales et ultra vel humili- 

 ores, laxe caespitosae pallide brunneo-virides, virides velsalurale- 

 virides. Caulis simplex vel 2 — 4parlitus, slrietus, solidus, ligneus, 

 rufo-fuscus, dense ramulosus, stralo corticali duplici e cellulis 

 minoribus formato. Ramuli 7—13, quorum 3 — 5 expansi, 

 breves, subarcuati, clavati, subito in apicem tenuissimum pro- 

 duct! 5 caeteri deflexi, cauli arete adpressi eumque omnino ob- 

 velautes, longissimi, tenuissimi, fihformes, plerumque purpuras- 

 centes; cor t ids cellulae porigerae a ceteris vix distinctae. Folia 

 caulina minima, ovato- triangularia, reflexa, cellulis hyalinis 

 pluripartitis, nee fibrosis, nee porosis, intermediis rhomboideis 

 ad marginem seusim angustatis eaque causa vix marginata, 

 auriculis vix distinctis ornata. Folia ramulina basilaria ovato- 

 lauceolata minula, arcle imbricata, media ex ovato elongate 

 lanceolata , erecto-patenlia vel patulo-reflexa , apice truncatulo 

 dentata, termiualia anguste lanceolata et lanceolato-subulata, 

 omnia margine hyalino e duplici cellularum serie efformalo. 

 Cellulae hyalinae libris annularibus et semiannularibus, superio- 

 ris partis poris minutissimis instructae, inferioris partis laterales 

 poris permagnis, mediae poris plerumque destitute. Cellular 

 chlorophyllosoe compressae, in superiore folii parte undique in- 

 clusive, in inferiore ad folii latus externum et internum con- 

 spicuse. 



Fruclus plerumque omnes in capitulo aggregati; pericbae- 

 tium stramineo-rubellum, folia pericheetialia inferiora ovato- 

 acuminata, concava, apice recurvo, cellulis hyalinis perangustis, 

 superiora elongato-oblonga, apice leviter emarginalo, subrc- 

 curvo convoluta, cellulis hyalinis aporosis et efibrosis, chloro- 

 phyllosis, latissimis. Capsula globosa, atro-brunnea; sporae 

 luleae. 



Flores monocci ; masculi in summo apice ramulorum hori- 

 zontalium, purpurascentes vel purpurese; perigynia uumerosa, 

 archegonia 3—4 iocludentia. 



/?) squarrulosum ; folia ramulorum hoiizonlaliuin, basilari- 

 bus apicalibusque exceptis , squarrosa , cellulis hyalinis plus 



porosis 







valde condensatis. 



ramulorum fasciculis 



p. d. remolum ; plantae saturate virides , ramulorum fasci- 

 culis remotis, ramulis longioribus arcuatis. 

 Syn. S. pycnocladon Angstr. msc, Rabcnh. Brvoth. europ. 



fasc. XV. 709. * 



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