IS SPHAGNACE^. [S2)hagnum. 



erect and clasping to the middle, siibsquarrose above, oblong- 

 lanceolate, with a narrow crenate border, the compressed ducts 

 broader and free on tlie inner surface ; perich^tial leaves oblong, 

 acuminate-lanceolate, coarsely dentate at and toward the apex, 

 the utricles librillose and porose in the upper part only : spores 

 yellow. — Torfm. t. 26 ; Sulliv, Icon. Muse. 9, t. 5. jS. mol- 

 luscoides, Muell. Syn. i. 99. S. molle^ Aust. S. tnolle^ var. 

 Muelleri, Braithw. Sphag. 54, t. 12. 



Had. Florida (Eussell); Lookout Mountain, Tennessee {Lesquereux)\ 

 New Jersey (Austin). 



13. S. molle, Sulliv. Dioecious, densely cespitose, v/hitish- 

 green : stems short (an inch or two high), with two cortical 

 layers of quadrangular cells ; branches close, 2 or 3 together, 

 spreading: stem-leaves close, large, oblong, obtuse, spreading 

 or deflexed, the utricles empty or slightly fibrillose and porose ;• 

 branch-leaves very delicate, ovate-oblong, erect, convolute 

 above, truncate-denticulate at the apex, the utricles with fibrils 

 and thinly scattered spores ; perichffitial leaves imbricate, con- 

 cave, constricted at the emarginate 2-3-toothed apex, utricles 

 empty : capsule globose, exserted from the tufted branches. — 

 Muse. Allegh. n. 205, Mosses of U. States, 13, and Icon. Muse. 



7, t. 4 ; Braithw. Sphag. 53 ; Lindb. Sphag. 33. S. tahxdarey 

 Sulliv. Muse. Allegh. n. 204, and Mosses of U. States, 12. 



8. compactum, Brid., and var., Muell. Syn. ii. 539. 



Var. tenerum, Braithw, Stems short, whitish ; branches 

 crowded: leaves acuminate, somewhat undulate. — Sphag. 55. 

 S. tenenim, Sulliv. & Lesqx., Muse. Bor.-Amer. (1 ed.) n. 11 ; 

 Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 11. 



Hab. Table Mountain, South Carolina (Gray); Tallulah Falls, Geor- 

 gia (Lesquereux); Quaker Bridge, New Jersey (James, Austin). 



14. S. Garberi, Lesqx. & James. Dioecious, of medium 

 size, green ; stems very soft, the rather large cortical cells in 

 three layers: stem-leaves small, deltoid-ovate, subcucullate, 

 nearly entire at the apex, the utricles large, scarcely narrower 

 along the margin, slightly porose and librillose toward the 

 base ; branch-leaves concave, imbricate at base, squarrose from 

 the middle, dentate at the truncate apex, not margined, the 

 large utricles closely fibrillose and porose, the very narrow 

 ducts on the convex side of the leaf and nearly surrounded 

 by the utricles; perichsetial leaves deeply concave but not 



