Sphagnum.] SPHAGNA CE^. 23 



pericha3tial leaves oblong-ovate, erose or truncate at the apex : 

 capsule globose, small, immersed in the lateral bud-like pericha)- 

 tium : male aments upon short simple tufted branches. — Muse. 

 Bor.-Am. Exsicc. (ed. 1), n. 5; SuUiv. Mosses of U. States, 11, 

 Icon. Muse. 13, t. 6, and Suppl. 16, t. 7 ; Lindb. Sphag. 80. 

 S. obtusifoHum, var. turgidum.. Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. 

 Muse. Bor.-Amer. (Coll. II.), n. 17. iS. laricinum, var. cydo- 

 pki/llum, Lindb., in jjart. ; Braithw. Sphag. 47, t. 8, fig. d. 



Hab, Growing in tufts in depressions in sandstone rocks or in sandy 

 ground in the mountains of the Southern States from Alabama to Florida; 

 floating in deep swamps near New Orleans; southern New Jersey, where 

 it was discovered in fruit by Mr. Austin. 



24. S. sedoides, Brid. Loosely cespitose, soft, purplish, 



the branches very short, scattered, simple or mere bud-like 



branchlets : leaves closely imbricated, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 



denticulate at and below the apex, narrowly margined, the 



utricles fibrillose, rarely porose : fruit unknown. — Bryol. Univ. 



i. 750; Sulliv. Muse. Allegh. n. 208, Mosses of U. States, 12, 



and Icon. Muse. 11, t. 6. S. Pylaiei, var. sedoides., Lindb.; 



Braithw. Sphag. 86, t. 28, B. Considered by Mueller (Syn. 



i. 92) to be a young state of S. cyinhifolium.. 



Hab. Springy places, on Table Rock, South Carolina {Gray, Lesque- 

 reux); Mount Marcy, New York (Torrey). 



25. S. Fitzgeraldi, Renauld, in litt. Plants in short 

 compact whitish tufts ; stems slender, with a single cortical 

 layer of large rectangular-elongated cellules ; branches single or 

 two together, short, arcuate or pendent : stem-leaves oblong or 

 obovate, truncate and dentate at the apex, auriculate at the base, 

 bordered by two rows of very narrow cells ; the utricles fibrose, 

 without pores ; branch-leaves narrow, linear-oblong, truncate, 

 denticulate at the apex and along the borders to the middle ; 

 the mai-ginal cells and utricles as in the stem-leaves ; ducts 

 medial, nearly square, much smaller than the utricles, but free 

 on the lower and upper surface : flowers and fruit unknown. 



Hab. Florida, on decaying leaves of palmetto (C. 77. Fitzgerald). 



Species allied to ^S. sedoides, Brid., differing in the stem-leaves, obovate 

 and auriculate at base, those of the branches narrow, nearly linear, den- 

 ticulate to the middle, truncate at the apex, and in the small square free 

 intermediate ducts. 



26. S. Pylaesii, Brid. Dioecious, loosely cespitose, reddish 

 brown, more robust than the preceding ; branches solitary or 



