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less compact habit and greater size, than by its specific 

 characters. 



6. B. ventricosum, stems elongated, branched with innovations ; 

 leaves lanceolate, erect, obscurely serrulate near the points, nerved 

 throughout; fruitstalks 2 or 2| inches; capsule oblong-ovate, 

 pendulous. B. ventricosum et bimum, SMITH. 



Hab. Marshy ground. In the boggy field below the old 

 Lamberton Toll, &c. Autumn. 



7. B. palustre, stems elongate, branched ; branches erect, cus- 

 pidate ; leaves lanceolate, 1 -nerved, the superior inclined to one 

 side and curved; fruitstalks 2 inches ; capsule furrowed, sub-cer- 

 nuous, ovate, bulging; lid conical Minum palustre, SM. Fl. 

 Brit. 1346. 



Hab. Bogs, in dense yellowish-green conspicuous masses. 

 Summer. 



" The branches of many of the older plants are terminated 

 with a wide stellated crown of leaves, in the centre of 

 which is a cluster of minute reddish dust-like scales. Some 

 of these stellated crowns are found proliferous, producing 

 often two or three short new pale stalks, about th of an 

 inch high, naked towards the top, and terminated each 

 with a minute scaly head." LIGHTFOOT. 



8. B. punctatum, stems elongated, nearly simple ; leaves large, 

 alternate, obovate, very obtuse, reticulated, margin thickened, 

 the nerve disappearing below the point ; fruitstalks 1 inch ; cap- 

 sule ovate, pendulous ; lid conical, subulate. 



Hab. In bogs, amongst alders and other brush wood, fre- 

 quent. Spring. 



* * Leaves distinctly serrated, 



9. B. rostratum, stem simple ; leaves alternate, broadly ovate, 

 reticulated, the margin thickened and toothed, the nerve excur- 

 rent ; fruitstalks more than 1 inch, 1 to 5 from the same stem ; 

 capsule ovate, pendulous ; lid long, subulate. 



Hab. In bogs with the preceding. Spring. 



10. B. cuspidatum, stems elongated, simple, or nearly so ; leaves 

 large, alternate, broadly ovate-lanceolate, reticulated, the nerve 



