Peat-Mosses 



2. Cuspidata. With branch-leaves longer and narrower than 

 the Acuta group, erect, spreading and wavy on the margins 

 when dry; stem-leaves small. Example: Sphagnum cuspidaium. 



Stem leaves. 



Branch leaves. 

 Sphagnum acutifolium. 



3. Squarrosa. Plants stout, branch-leaves spreading open 

 widely and abruptly from the middle of the branch. Example: 

 Sphagnum squarrosum. (See diagram below.) 



4. Mollia. Plants short, densely crowded, very soft when 



Stem leaves. Branch leaf. 



Sphagnum mollt. 



Branch leaves. 

 Sphagnum cuspidaium. 



A 



Branch leaf. 

 Sphagnum squarrosum. 



Branch leaf. Stem leaf. 

 Sphagnum subsecundum. 



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Stem leaf. Branch leaf. 

 Sphagnum cymbifolium. 



