I52 THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 



Var. purpurescens, Schleip. 



Howden Hole, Hardcastle. — /. Needham. 

 Var. versicolor, Warnst. 



Erringden Moor. — /. T. A spin ; Saltonstall Moor, 

 Booth Dean, between Long and Burn Cloughs ! 



Var. Yirescens, Warnst. 



Romfolly, and Under Foulds-hill, Hardcastle. — 

 /. Needham. Hollock Lee, Erringden. — /. T. A spin \ 



SPHAGNA SQUARROSA, Schimp. 



Sphagnum squarrosum, Pers. 



Var. spectabile, Russ. & Warnst. 



Stansfield. — Herb. Nowell and Herb. Col. Akvoyd. 



1888. Calder district moors.— C. P. Hobkivk ; Lees 

 Flora. 



Not uncommon in stream side woodlands, and in 

 open moorland cloughs. Hebden valley, in fruit ; 

 Crimsworth Dean. — /. Needham. Broadhead, Er- 

 ringden ; Cragg Vale ; Ogden Clough ; Graining 

 Water side, Widdop ! More frequent than the two 

 following varieties. Grows in less spreading beds 

 than S. recurvum, S. subnitens, and S. cymbi folium. 

 Its range of altitude here is 550 to 1,100 ft. 



Var. sub-squarrosum, Russ. 



Ogden Clough ; Graining Water side, Widdop ! 

 Var. imbricatum, Schimp. 



Herb. Col. Akroyd, in fruit. 



SPHAGNA CUSPIDATA, Schimp. 



Sphagnum cuspidatum, (Ehrh) R. & W. 



1835. Near the Bride Stones, Stansfield Moor, in fruit. — 



Herb. Col. Akroyd. 

 1846. Stansfield Moor, in fruit. — Herb. Leyl. & Herb. Nwl. 



Common, in the aggregate, in moorland pools, partially or 

 wholly submerged. 



Var. plumosum, Nees and Hornsch. 



1840. In fruit on Stansfield Moor. — S. Gibson ; 

 Baines' Flora. 



1846. Stansfield Moor. — Herb. Leyland & Herb. Nwl. 



Erringden Moor. — /. T. A spin. 



