CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 197 



§ 6. SUBSECUNDA. 



S. Pylassii, Brid. L. & J., Mosses N. A., 23. Var. ramosum, 

 Warnst. Bot. Gaz., xv. 243. 



Frequent in very wet places, from the sea level to moun- 

 tain summits. Appearing in a number of forms distinguished 

 merely by color, black (/. nigricans, Brid.), green (/. virescens, 

 Warnst.), yellow (/. Jlava, Warnst.), and red-brown (/. rufes- 

 cens, Warnst.). Green Mt. ; Browns Mt. (E. Faxon) ; — Sea 

 Wall; Sunken Heath; Aunt Bettys Pond (Faxon & Ptand) ; — 

 Breakneck Ponds; Pemetic Mt. (Rand). 



S. subsecundum, Nees. L. & J., Mosses N. A., 19. 



Meadow on Denning Brook; Town Hill; Sea Wall Swamp; 

 Southwest Valley road (E. Faxon) ; — Bass Harbor Marsh 

 (Hand). 



Var. macrophyllum, Roell. 



Stem leaves Ungulate, evenly bordered, 1.14-1.45 mm. long, 

 nearly two thirds as broad, the upper part porose and fibrillose; 

 hyaline cells often partitioned ; branch leaves ovate, 1.71- 

 1.90 mm. long, little more than half as broad, inner pores in 

 the cell angles, mostly near the margins. Southwest Harbor ; 

 Upper Breakneck Pond (Rand); — Little Cranberry Isle (Red- 

 field). 



Var. mesophyllum, Warnst. 



Stem leaves lingulate, evenly bordered, 1-1.40 mm. long, two 

 thirds to four fifths as broad, the upper part porose and fibril- 

 lose; hyaline cells much partitioned; branch leaves ovate, about 

 as long and broad as the stem leaves, inner surface with feebly 

 ringed pores towards the apex. Breakneck Ponds ; Beech Mt. 

 Notch; woods, Norwood Cove; Deer Brook (Rand). 



Var. microphyllum, Roell. 



Stem leaves small, somewhat triangular, border widened to 

 the base, about 0.57 mm. long, and the same in greatest breadth, 

 usually without pores or fibrils; hj'aline cells not partitioned; 

 branch leaves lance-ovate, about 0.80 mm. long, and little more 



