Peat-Mosses 



2. Cuspidata. With branch-leaves longer and narrower than 

 the Acuta group, erect, spreading and wavy on the margins 

 when dry; stem-leaves small. Example: Sphagnum cuspidatum. 



Stein leaves. 



Branch leaves. 

 Sphagnum acutifol-ium. 



3. Squarrosa. Plants stout, branch-leaves spreading open 

 widely and abruptly from the middle of the branch. Example: 

 Sphagnum squarrosum. (See diagram below.) 



4. Mollia. Plants short, densely crowded, very soft when 



Stem leaves. 



Stem leaves. Branch leaf. 



Sphagnum molle. 



Branch leaves. 

 Sphagnum cuspidatum. 



Branch leaf. Branch leaf. Stem leaf. 



Sphagnum squarrosum. Sphagnum subsecundum. 



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Stem leaf. Branch leaf. 



Sphagnum cymbifolium. 



