IOONES MUSCOHUM. 



SPHAGNUM [MULLERI, Schimp. 



Tab. 5. 



Planive dclicatukc, viriduhe vcl sordidc albescentes, raro 

 colore dilute purpurascente tincta3. 



Caulis 1 - 4-uneialis, tenuis ; strato tegmentario duplici : ra- 

 muli 3-4-fasciculati, in plantis humilioribus erecto-patentes con- 

 densati, in elatioribus 1-2 arcuato-deflexi, caiteri graciliores, 

 flagelliformes, penduli ; cellulis corticalibus elongatis in strato 

 unico dispositis, illis porigeris apice lenissime recurvis. 



Folia caulina magna, oblongo- vel obovato-lanceolata ; cellulis 

 hyalinis spirigeris et porosis : folia ramulina e basi ad medium 

 amplexicaulia erecta, dehinc squarrosa, ex oblongo lanceolata, 

 superne involuto-concava, margine crenato angustissimo, apice 

 (ut in caulinis) plus minus grosse dentato ; cellulis hyalinis 

 angulato-serpentinis fibrillis porisque instructis ; cellulis chloro- 

 phyllosis situ sectioneque transversali speciei prsecedentis. 



Flores monoici : amentula mascula brevia, crassiuscula, viola- 

 cea, in ramulis comalibus et horizontalibus (numquam in de- 

 pendentibus) posita. 



Capsula terminalis, globosa, emersa : folia perichaetialia laxi- 

 uscula, curvula, oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, limbo lato ver- 

 sus apicem irregulariter dentatam sensim latiore circumducta ; 

 cellulis hyalinis ad folii partem superiorem fibrillis et poris 

 instructis, ad inferiorem carentibus : sporae sulphurese. 



Sphagnum Mulleri, Schimp. Gesch. d. Torfm. p. 73, t. 26, Synop. Muse. 



Europ. p. 686. 

 Sphagnum molluscoides, Miill. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 539. 

 Sphagnum acutifolium var. ? Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 203. (1845.) 

 Sphagnum Tabulahe, Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Auier. Exsice. (ed. 1), 



No. 15; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 12, pro parte. 



