2 ICONES MUSCORUM. 



pcrichirtii laxi foliis oblongo-ovatis, supremis convolutis, apice 

 obtuso dentatis, areolationc ramulinorum. 



SPHAGNUM macrophyllum, Bernh. in Brid. Bryol. Univ. 1, p. 10; Drum- 

 mond, Muse. Amer., Coll. 2, No. 18; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan., No. 207, 

 Mosses U. States, p. 12 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), 

 No. l. 



[SOCLADUS macrophyllus, S. O. Lindberg, 1861. 



Hab. Swamps in Louisiana, Drummond. . Raccoon Mountains, 

 Alabama, Lesquereux. Green County, Mississippi, Tice. 

 New Jersey, Austin. 



A remarkable peculiarity in this species is the absence of 

 fibrillar in the hyaline cells of the whole plant. The same occurs 

 in only two other species, viz. S. Hollianum, D. Sf M., and 

 S. sericeum, C. MiilL, both from the East Indies. 



TAB. 1. — Sphagnum macrophyllum. 



1. Planta naturali magnitudine. 



2. Pars eaulis cum ramulo. 



3. Eadem cum foliis. 



4. Sectiones transversales eaulis. 



5. Seetio transversalis ramuli. 

 G, 7. Folia caulina. 



8. Folium ramulinum. 



9. Apex ejusdem. 



10. Areolatio ejusdem. 



11, 12. Sectiones transversales ejusdem. 



13. Calyptra styligera totam capsulam investiens cum archegoniis. 



14. Capsula cum folio perichsetiali. 



15. Capsula deopereulata. 



16. Seetio verticalis, apicem pseudopodii excavatam vaginulam hemisphaerieam 



ealyptrajque basin ostendens. 



17. Capsula operculata, calyptra? pars basilaris, pseudopodium et folia peri- 



cha?tialia. 



18. Seetio verticalis figuraj 13, sporangium excavato-hemispba?ricum et colu- 



mellam crassam exbibens. 



19. Partes in sectione trans, calyptra?, operculi, et capsula; parietorum. 



20. Spora. 



