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Synon. — Sph. ripaiium, Anostr. Ofv. Vet. Ak. Fiirh. xxi. p. 19S (1864). 

 Klingg. in Schr. der K. I'hys. (Ek. Gesel. zu Koniys. 1872, p. 6. 



Sph. ciispidatum van majits et var. spcciosnm, Russow, Bcitr. Kennt. Torfm. 

 p. 57 (1865). MiLDE, Bryol. Siles. p. 384. 



Sph. spedosiim, Klinggraff, in Sciir. dcr K. Pliys. CEk. Gesel. zu Konigs. 

 1872, p. 5. 



Sp/t. cuspidatum var. h.fallax, Klingg. 1. c. p. 7. 



Sp/i. spcdabilc, Schimp. Synops. ed. 2, p. 834 (1876). 



Sph. obtusiim, Warnstorf, in Botan. Zeit. 1877, p. 478. 



Sph. intermedium var. riparium, Lindb. Braitiiw. .Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 49. 



Hab.^ — Deep moorland ditches, more or less immersed. 



Europe. — Scandinavia: In Upland and Westrobotlmia ; Grycsbo, in nalecarlia 

 (Lindberg) ; Ostergotiiland, in Sweden (Dusen) ; Finland, Jurva (Simming), and 

 Kajana (Hrolhcrus) ; Snasen Vatten, in Norway (Hartman). Germany : Labiau ; 

 Iserwiese, in the Ricsengebirge (Limpricht); Heiligcn-Geist-See, near Arnswalde, 

 in Neumark (Warnstorf) ; Stuhm and Ibenhorst, in Prussia (Klinggriiff) ; Silesia 

 (Milde); sparingly in Livland, Estland, and Courland (Russow). England: Wool- 

 ston Moss, Cheshire (Wilson) ; Old Trafford Moor, Manchester (Hunt). 



This fine plant has several peculiarities which almost entitle it 

 to rank as a sub-species, notably the areolation of the point of the 

 branch leaves, free from hyaline cells. When fully developed, it 

 is one of the noblest of the genus, and the long drooping branches 

 are very pretty ; the stem leaves vary somewhat in their points, 

 being occasionally deeply lacerated, at other times nearly entire. 

 It is to be feared the Manchester locality has now been planted 

 with bricks and mortar. 



Var. y. pulchrum, Lindb. 



Plants robust, densely tufted, with crowded fascicles, yellow 

 green often with a golden fulvous tinge. Stem more rigid, with 

 the cuticular cells more distinct ; stem leaves acute and usually 

 contracted suddenly at apex into a minute recurved apiculus, the 

 hyaline cells more or less fibrillose in the upper third of leaf. 

 Ramuli short, ascending or divergent, dense-leaved. 



SvNON.— Braithw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 48. 



Hab. — In deep bogs on the northern peat-moors. 



Europe. — Carrington Moss, Cheshire (Hunt, 1863); Wheeldale Moor, Goath- 

 land, Yorkshire (Anderson) ; Fowlshaw Moss and Broad Gate Bog, Staveley, West- 

 moreland (Stabler). Sweden : Hunneberg Mountain (Lindberg). 



This beautiful plant when growing in large masses has a fine 

 effect, and the strong dense-leaved branches present a marked 

 contrast to the laxer forms of the species. It may be at once 

 known by the fibrils in the upper part of the stem leaves, and the 

 mode in which they terminate in a little contracted hollow point. 



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