24 SPHAGNACE^. [Sphagnum. 



fascicled in twos or threes, short, arcuate, filiform : leaves of 

 the stem, branches and perichaatium oblong-ovate, broadly 

 obtuse, entire or erose at the apex : capsule small, globose, 

 immersed on short lateral branches : male plants more robust, 

 the aments in the upper slightly inflated branches. — Bryol. 

 Univ. i. 749; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 12, t. 6, and Suppl. 15, t. 6; 

 BraithAV. Sphag. 85, t. 28, excl. var. S. cymbifoliwn, forma 

 Juuenilis, Muell. Syn. i. 92. ^iS". sedoides, var., Sulliv. & Lesq. 

 Muse. Bor.-Am. Exsicc. (ed. 1), n. 4. 



Hab. Same as the preceding; stagnant marshes, Southern New 

 Jersey, in fruit (Austin, J. Donnell Smith), 



§8. Abnormia. Ste7ns and branch-leaves with porose cells and 

 no fibres. Plants of large size, shining wheii dry. 



27. S. macrophyllum, Bernh. Dioecious, very long, 

 generally floating, dark olive-green or brown ; stems solid, with 

 a double or triple layer of thick-walled transversely oval or 

 subquadrate cells ; branches in fascicles of 3 or 4, diverging 

 and spreading : stem-leaves small, ovate, enlarged at base, 

 tapering to an obtuse apex, entire ; branch-leaves rigid, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, subulate, denticulate at the convolute apex, 

 the utricles long and fusiform, with pores in longitudinal rows 

 in the middle, the nearly circular thin-walled ducts central and 

 free on both sides : 2>ericha3tium lateral and tufted, with 

 oblong-lanceolate obtuse leaves, denticulate at the apex : cap- 

 sule globose, short-pedicellate : spores sulphur-yellow, tetrahe- 

 dral and papillose : male flowers unknown. — Brid. Bryol. 

 Univ. i. 10 ; Sulliv. Muse. Allegh. n. 207, Mosses of U. States, 

 12, and Icon. Muse. 1, t. 1. ; Braithw. Sphag. 87, t. 29 ; Lindb. 

 Sphag. 72. 



Var. Floridanum, Aust. Areoles of the leaves twice as 

 long as in the normal form, with 40 to 70 minute pores in 

 two rows. — Bull. Torrey Club, vii. 15. S. cribrosum, Lindb. 

 Sphag. 74. 



Hab. Swamps of the Southern States, from New Jersey to Florida, 

 rarely fruiting; the variety in Florida (Austin, J. Donnell Smith). 



