ICONES MUSCORUM. 



SPHAGNUM MACROPHYLLUM, Bernh. 



Tab. 1. 



Plants 6-8-unciales, in aquis stagnantibus multo longiores, 

 pallide olivaceo-virides inferne dilute fusccscentes, siccitate splen- 

 dentes rigidulae. 



Caulis simplex vel innovatione seuiel dichotomus, firmus, In- 

 cus, fasciculatim 3-4-ramulosus: ramulis conformibus strictis 

 divergenti-dependentibus subflabellatim laxius foliosis ; strato 

 corticali caulium duplici vel triplici, ramulorum partim simplici 

 partim duplici vel triplici e cellulis inflatis, illis ramulorum par- 

 cissime porigeris, formato. 



Folia caulina miuuta, e basi latissima ovato-oblonga, apic< 

 obtusa, integerrima : folia ramulina rigidula, angustc lauceolata, 

 lanceolato-subulata, involuto-concava, apice truncatulo 7-8-den- 

 tata, cellulis angustissimis 1-2-seriatis margiuata ; cellulis 

 hyalinis in foliis caulinis ramuliuisque elongatis flexuoso-fusi- 

 formibus poris in linea media longitrorsum positis instructis, 

 fibrillis (ut in tota planta) omnino deficicntibus ; cellulis chloro- 

 phyllosis ad utramque folii faciem emersis inque sectione trans- 

 versali suborbiculatis. 



Flores dioici : masculi ignoti : feminei in caulis capitulo et 

 laterales laxe gemmacei ; archegoniis 3-4. 



Capsula in pseudopodio breviusculo elata, subglobosa ; sporis 

 tetraedris papillulosis sulpliureis circa ^fo unc. mctientibus : 



