SPLACHNUM. 



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apophysis inversely flagon-shaped, twice as wide as the cap- 

 sule. (TAB. IX.) 



S. ampullaceum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1572. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 2. t. 14. 

 Turn. Muse. Hib.p. 16. Engl Bot. t. 144. Moug. et Nestl n. 15. S. 

 Turnerianum. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4. t. 10. /. 1 1. Engl. Bot. t. 1 1 16. 



HAB. Bogs in various parts of England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland; growing upon the ground as well as on the dung of 

 animals, and on the plains as well as the mountains. 



We agree entirely with Mr. Turner that Mr. Dickson's 

 S. Turnerianum is a variety 'depending on age and parti- 

 cular circumstances of season and accident* The whole 

 plant is smaller, and the apophysis of the capsule narrower 

 than in the common appearance. In both the stems are 

 short, often scarcely any, the fruitstalks two and even three 

 inches in length. 



* * Leaves obtuse. 



6. S. vasculosum; leaves rhombo-rotundate, obtuse, the nerve 

 disappearing before the point ; apophysis globose, much 

 wider than the capsule. (SrjFPL. TAB. I-) 



S. vasculosum. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 2. t. 15. S. rugosum. Engl. Bot. 

 f. 2094.? (not of Dickson.) 



HAB. Scotland. Sent thence by the late Mr. Dm to 

 Mr. D/cAron, without any further particulars as to the placeof 

 its growth. Boghalf-wayup BenLawers. Mr.J.T.Mackay. 



The stems are half an inch or more in length; the fruit- 

 stalks about twice as long. Contrary to Mohr's observation, 

 we find the nerve of the leaf, as figured by Hedwig, constantly 

 disappearing before the point. We have previously observed 

 the figure of the natural size in English Botany to resemble 

 a good deal our plant: but then the magnified leaf which is 

 so acuminated can never have been taken from our speci- 

 mens, for which we are lately indebted to Mr. Dickson, who 

 had received them from Mr. G. Don. Others found by Mr. 

 J. T. Macli ay in the year 1803 in a bog half-way up Ben 

 Lawers exist in Mr. Turner's herbarium. Wahlenberg relates 

 of this plant (what our own observations will by no means 

 confirm), that he has seen some states of it with the capsules 

 so dilated and the leaves so lengthened that they could be 

 with difficulty distinguished from S. ampullaceum. Our own 

 specimens appear very distinct. 



S. Froelichianum ; leaves ovate, rounded at the points, their 

 nerve disappearing before the summit; apophysis obovate^ 

 narrower than the capsule. (TAB, 



