[CONES Mi SCORUM 



SPHAGNUM IIUMILE, Schimp. 



Tab. 3. 



Plantve humiles, 1 - 5-unciales, robustiuscuhe, in csespitibus 

 glauccscenti-viridibus inferne sordide albesccntibus degentes. 



Caulis simplex vel bifurcatus, strato corticali triplici poris 

 carentc vestitus: ramulis2-3 fasciculatis plus minus congestis 

 squarroso-foliosis, 1-2 erecto-patentibus vel deflexis, caeteris 

 gracilioribus pendulis ; cellulis corticalibus stratum simplex for- 

 mantibus elongatis, nonnullis apice leniter recurvo pertusis. 



Folia caulina triangulari-ovata oblongave, crecta vel reflexa, 

 apice eroso-dentata, parce porosa, fibrillis plerumque destituta : 

 folia ramulorum majorum oblonga, acuminata, apice truncato 

 denticulata, laxe incumbentia, e basi ad medium erecta amplcx- 

 ante, dehinc squarrosa ; apicalia stricta, lanceolato-subulata ; om- 

 nia angustissime marginata; cellulis hyalinis latiusculis elongato- 

 rhomboideis vel angulato-fusiformibus porosis fibrillosis; cellulis 

 chlorophyllosis versus folii dorsum positis ibidemque subemersis, 

 transverse sectis cuneiformi-ellipticis. 



Flores dioici ? masculi ignoti : feminei in caulis capitulo 

 gemmaeformes curvuli. 



Capsula globosa exserta : perichaetii raro dissoluti foliis supe- 

 rioribus elongato-oblongis sensim acuminatis late marginatis 

 fibrillis porisque instructis. 



Sphagnum humile, Schimp. in schedis et in Gesch. d. Torftn. p. 80; Sulliv. 



& Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 14; Sulliv. Mosses U. 



States, p. 11. 

 SrHAGNUM compactum, Brid. e Miill. Sjnop. Muse. 1, p. 99. 



Hab. Tallabassee, Florida, Rug-el. Lookout Mountains, Ala- 

 bama, Lesquereux. New Jersey, James, Avstin. 



