50 THE SPHAGNACEM OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 



somewhat glossy, the chlorophyllose cells less compressed, the 

 apex with five or six larger teeth. 



Synon. — Sph. contortum, Schultz, Suppl. Fl. Starg. p. 64 (18 19). Nees, Hsch. 

 St. Bry. Germ. i. p. 15, t. 2, f. 6 (1823). Brid. Bry. Un. i. p. 7 (1826). Wils. Bry. 

 Br. p. 22, pi. 60 (1855). Sull. Moss. Un. St. p. n, n. 3 (1856). Berkel. Handb. 

 p. 308 (1863). Klingg. in Schr. der K. Phys. CEk. Gesel. zu Konigs. 1872, p. 8. 

 • Sph. Lescurii, Sull. Muse. Bor.-Amer. n. 6 (1856) ; Mosses of Un. St. p. 1 1, n. 4. 



Sph. subsecundum var. contortum, Schimp. Torfm. p. 75, t. xxii. £ et xxiii. y3 - 

 Synops. p. 683, et ed. 2, p. 844. Milde, Bry. Siles. p. 393. Braithw. Sphag. Brit. 

 Exsic. n. 16, 17. 



Sph. latifolium var. fi.fluitans, Turn. Muse. Hibern. p. 5 (1804). 



Sph. subsecundum var. rufescens, N. H. St. Bry. Germ. i. p. 16, t. 2, f. 6*. Brid. 

 Bry. Un. i. p. 8. Huben. Muse. Germ. p. 26. 



Sph. subsecundum var. isophyllum, Russow, Torf. p. 73, p.p. 



Hab. — Ditches in peat-bogs and at margin of pools; frequent throughout 

 Europe and N. America. 



This variety is perhaps the most polymorphous of all the 

 Sphagna, and in some form or other may generally be met with. 

 Occasionally it is very large, and presents an intermediate stage to 

 the var. obesum; in others the branches are not contorted or but 

 slightly so in those of the capitulum, or they may be short, ascendingi 

 and of equal length throughout. 



Mr. Boswell sends a curious form, which he found floating in a 

 spring on Mitcheldean Meend, Gloucester: in this the upper branches 

 are abbreviated, and the rufescent leaves clustered upon them into 

 a rosette shape. Another, collected by Rev. Aug. Ley, at Trelleck 

 Bog, Monmouth, has the stems quite simple or with a few solitary 

 branches, and very long lax leaves : this he regards as probably the 

 var. simplicissimum, Milde. 



Var. y. auriculatum (Schimp.), Lindb. 



Plants glaucous green above, pale below ; the stems pale brown 

 or green. Cauline leaves large, lingulate-acuminate, subhastate at 

 base, with large auricles composed of large fibrose utricular cells, 

 free and perforated at the apex. 



Sph. auriculatum, Schimp. Torfm. p. 77, t. xxiv. (1858); Synops. p. 687 (i860), 

 et ed. 2, p. 844 (1876). 



Sph. cymbifolium var. y. tenellum, Hartm. Skand. Fl. ed. 7, p. 398 (1858). 



Sph. subsecundum var. auriculatum, Lindb. in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xix. p. 141 

 (1862), in obs. sub. n. n. Schliep. in Verh. Z. B. Gesel. Wien, 1865, p. 411. 

 Braithw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 19, 20. 



Hab. — At the margins of pools on heaths. 



Europe. — England: Hayward's Heath, Sussex (Mitten) ; Sutton Park, Birming- 

 ham (Bagnall) ; Witherslack Moss, Westmoreland (Barnes) ; Lindow Common, 



