CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. J97 



6. SUBSECUNDA. 



S. Pylaesii, Brid. L. & J., Mosses N. A., 23. Var. ramosum, 

 Warnst. Bot. Gaz., xv. 243. 



Frequent in very wet places, from the sea level to moun- 

 tain summits. Appearing in a number of forms distinguished 

 merely by color, black (/. nigricans, Brid.), green (/. virescens, 

 Warnst.), yellow (/. flava, Warnst.), and red-brown (/. rufes- 

 censj Warnst.). Green Mt. ; Browns Mt. (E. Faxon); Sea 

 Wall; Sunken Heath; Aunt Bettys Pond (Faxon & Rand) ; 

 Breakneck Ponds; Pemetic Mt. (Rand). 



S. subsecundum, Nees. L. & J., Mosses N. A., 19. 



Meadow on Denning Brook; Town Hill; Sea Wall Swamp; 

 Southwest Valley road (E. Faxon) ; Bass Harbor Marsh 

 (Eand). 



Var. macrophyllum, Roell. 



Stem leaves lingulate, evenly bordered, 1.14-1.45 mm. long, 

 nearly two thirds as broad, the upper part porose and fibrillose; 

 hyaline cells often partitioned ; branch leaves ovate, 1.71- 

 1.90 mm. long, little more than half as broad, inner pores in 

 the cell angles, mostly near the margins. Southwest Harbor ; 

 Upper Breakneck Pond (Rand); Little Cranberry Isle (Red- 

 field). 



Var. mesophyllum, Warnst. 



Stem leaves lingulate, evenly bordered, 1-1.40 mm. long, two 

 thirds to four fifths as broad, the upper part porose and fibril- 

 lose; hyaline cells much partitioned; branch leaves ovate, about 

 as long and broad as the stem leaves, inner surface with feebly 

 ringed pores towards the apex. Breakneck Ponds ; Beech Mt. 

 Notch; woods, Norwood Cove; Deer Brook (Rand). 



Var. microphyllum, Roell. 



Stem leaves small, somewhat triangular, border widened to 

 the base, about 0.57mm. long, and the same in greatest breadth, 

 usually without pores or fibrils ; hyaline cells not partitioned ; 

 branch leaves lance-ovate, about 0.80 mm. long, and little more 



