ICONES MUSCORUM. 15 



SPHAGNUM PYL^SII, Brid. 



Tab. 6. 



Plants fertiles robustiores, in caespitcs laxiores congestae. 



Caulis simplex, vix semipedalis ; ramulis singulis vel 2- 3 fas- 

 ciculatis curvulis et deflexis filiformibus subacutis. 



Folia caulina ramulinaque similia, oblongo-ovata, valde con- 

 cava, obtusiuscula, integerrima, cellulis hyalinis fibrillosis epo- 

 rosis, ductibus intercellularibus chlorophyllosis ad utramque folii 

 faciem parietibus crassis liberis sectione transversali ovalibus. 



Flores dioici : plantse masculinge femineis robustiores ; amen- 

 tula mascula subinflata, in ramulis superioribus disposita. Cap- 

 sula in ramulis lateralibus brevioribus immersa, parva, globosa. 

 Folia pericliEetialia laxiuscula, conformia, longiora. 



Sphagnum 'Pyl^sii, Brid. Bryol. Univ. p. 750; Sulliv. Icones Muse. 1, 



p. 12, t. 6. 

 Sphagnum sedoides, var. Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Amer. Exsic. (ed. 1), 



No. 4 ; Sulliv. Mosses U. S. p. 12. 

 Sphagnum cymbifolium, forma juvenilis, Miill. Synop. Muse. 1, p. 92. 



Hab. Newfoundland, La Pylaie. Table-Rock Mountain in 

 South Carolina, Gray, Lesquereux. Willey Mountain, New 

 Hampshire, James. Stagnant pools and marshes in South- 

 ern New Jersey, in fruiting state, Austin. 



TAB. 6. — Sphagnum PYLiESii. 



1. Plantae mase. et fem. naturali magnitudine. 



2. Pars caulis cum ramulo fructifero. 



3. 4. Folia caulina et ramulina. 



5, 6. Sectio transversalis foliorum. 



7. Areolatio foliorum. 



8, 9. Sectio transversalis caulis et ramuli. 



10. Ramulus fertilis cum pericha;tio et capsula. 



11. Folium pericbastiale cum pseudopodio capsula et sporis. 



12. Raiuulus femiueus cum antheridiis pedicellatis eparaphysatis. 



