ICONES MUSCORUM. 



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SPHAGNUM LARICINUM, Spruce. 



Tab. 8. 



A Sphagno contorto, cui habitu statura et colore simillimum, 

 differt: foliis caulinis ad basin coarctatis apice emarginatis, 

 ramulinis brevioribus imbricatis appressis nee subsecundis, 

 cellulis liyalinis elongatis flexiiosis, poris minoribus rarioribus 

 ad utramqiie marginem sitis, cellulis parietalibus cliloropliyllosis, 

 medianis sectione transversal! ovalibus ad utramque faciem 

 liberis, caulis strato cortical! duplici, etc. 



Sphagnum laricinum, Spruce ; Angstr. in Ofvers. Kon. Vet. Akad. 



Forh. (1864). 

 Sphagnum contortum, var. laricinum, Wils. Bryol. Brit. p. 22. 

 Sphagnum subsecundum, Milde, Bryol. Siles. p. 392. 



Hab. Marshes and bogs, Sandlake, New York, PecJc. 



The specimens apparently represent this species. They are, 

 however, too incomplete for positive identification. The plate 

 is completed from European specimens. 



TAB. 8. — Sphagnum laricinum. 



1. Planta naturali magniludine. 



2. Pars caulis cum rainulis et pericliaetio. 



3. Folia ramulina. 



4. Sectio transversalis folii. 



5. Ejusdetn areolatlo. 



6. Folium caulinum. 



7. Pars ramuli denudati. 



8. Ejusdem sectio transversalis. 



9. Sectio transversalis caulis. 



10. Folium pericha3tiale et ejusdem areolatlo. 



11. Capsula operculata. 



