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SPHAGNUM CYCLOPIIYLLUM, Suttiv. et Lesqcc. 



Tab. 6. 



Plants robustiores, turgide vermiculiformes, procumbentes : 

 caespiteslaxi, molles, glauco-virides pallidc flavescentes vel fusco- 

 rubentes. 



Caulis 2 - 4-uncialis et ultra, * unc. diaractro excedens, cora- 

 pressojulaceus, ut plurimum simplex, interdum uno alterovc 

 raiuo instructus, debilis, flexuosus : stratum tegmeiitarium sim- 

 plex. 



Folia pro caulis ratione amplissima, expansa orbiculari-ovata, 

 imbricantia, flaccidissima, apice integerrima, basi contracta, 

 cellulis exilissimis biserialibus marginata ; cellulis hyalinis elon- 

 gatis flexuosis fibrilliferis, poris numerosis minutis ad latera 

 positis. Sectio transversalis folii ut in praecedente. 



Flores et fructus ignoti. 



Sphagnum cyclophyllum, Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. 



(ed. 1), No. 5; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 11. 

 Sphagnum cymbifolium var., Hook. & Wils. in Drum. Muse. Amer. Coll. 



2, No. 1 7. 



Hab. New Orleans, Drummond. Mountains of Alabama, 

 Lesquereux. New Jersey, James, Austin. 



S. cyclophyllum, S. sedoides, and S. Pylccsii are doubtless 

 young or rudimentary forms of one or more species whicb are 

 either unknown, or, if known, not yet recognized as the above 

 plants in their fully developed state. Their close relationship 

 to the protean S. subsecundum (which already, in the case of 

 S. sedoides, has been noticed by Wilson, Bryol. Brit.) is sug- 

 gested by their color, varying through different shades of glau- 

 cous, olive-green, pale yellow, vinous red, and brownish black, 

 and by the texture, and, to a certain extent, the shape of their 

 leaves. The almost entire absence of pores in S. sedoides and 



