78 HISTORY OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



Bogs, and similar situations with the others. Fr. Spring 

 and early summer. This was regarded by Liunseus and 

 others as a variety of S. oUusifolium, but it retains its 

 specific character fully as well as any. 



4. Sphagnum cuspid atom, Ehrh. {Long-leaved Floating 

 Bog Moss.) Branches attenuated ; leaves lanceolato-subu- 

 late, lax. — Erig. Fl. p. 6; Miill. Spi.pt. I. p. 9G. 



Wet bogs and similar situations, where it can be wholly 

 immersed in water ; rare in fruit. Pr. Spring. Tliis spe- 

 cies varies much in the form and direction of the leaves, and 

 has been by some regarded as an aquatic variety of S. acuti- 

 folium. It sometimes attains a great length, as Dr. Greville 

 records a specimen four feet long, with leaves three-fourths 

 of an inch in length. 



CEDIPODIUM, ScJmagr. (Club-stalked Moss.) 



The swollen appearance of the footstalk in its upper por- 

 tion, from which the generic name is derived, is its cliief 

 distinction from Gymnostomum. In habit it very much 

 resembles the genus Splachnum. 



Generic Character. — Seta terminal, thick, fleshy. Mouth of 



