CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 191 



SPHAGNUM, L. Peat Moss. 



§ 1. ACUTIFOLIA. 



S. fimbriatum, Wils. L. & J., Mosses N. A., 14. Var. tenue. 

 Gravet. Bot. Gaz., xv. 128. 



Swamp west of Sea Wall; Red Rocks, Great Cranberry Isle; 

 Bass Harbor (Rand); — Little Cranberry Isle (Redfield); — 

 Sargent Mt. (E. Faxon). 



S. Girgensohnii, Russ. S. strictum, Lindb. L. & J., Mosses 

 N. A., 13. 

 Common. 



Var. stachyodes, Russ. Bot. Gaz., xv. 129. 



Southwest Harbor; western side of Browns Mt. ; Seal Har- 

 bor; Long Pond meadows (Rand). 



Var. hydrophilum, Russ. 



Plant 5-8 cm. high, pale green, mostly drepanocladous, 

 growing in wet places, the coma indistinct; stem leaves narrow, 

 nearly twice longer than broad, very narrowly margined except 

 at the very base, hyaline cells often partitioned, pores and 

 fibrils none; branch leaves loosely imbricate with spreading 

 tips. High Head (Rand). 



Var. teretiusculum, Warnst, 



In extremely compact tufts, 5-7 cm. high; plants very slender; 

 stem leaves very small, Ungulate, about one and one half times 

 as long as wide ; branch leaves also small, closely imbricated, so 

 that the short branches are perfectly terete. "VVarnst., Hedwigia, 

 xxxii. (1893) 15. Summit of Sargent Mt. (Rand). 



Var. sphaerocephalum, "Warnst. 



In compact tufts about 10 cm. high ; stem leaves small, lingu- 

 late, little longer than broad; branches of the coma united into 

 a large, thick, almost spherical head, with leaves remarkably 

 large and in part squarrosely spreading. Warnst., Hedwigia, 

 xxxii. (1893) 15. Reservoir, Jordan Pond road (Rand). 



