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much like it, our species differing merely by more acute branch leaves and a broader 
reticulation of the stem leaves—differences of little imporfance. Therefore if 8. 
squarrulosum should be united to any species asa variety, it would rather go with S. 
rigidum. But it is better to let the species stand as it is till its fruit is known, and it 
can be thus thoroughly studied. It is right to remark also that it was originally found 
in the bogs of the Jura Mountains, of Switzerland, where S. sguarrosum has never 
been seen. For this species more generally inhabits the bogs and streams of primitive 
rocks, and not the limestone. 
5. §. subsecundum, Nees & Hrnsch. 
Hab. wet meadows, Mariposa Big Trees, God. 
Var. B. longifolium, ramis attenuatis longioribus, foliis angustis lanccolatis, 
elongatis. 
Hab. Mendocino City, swamps, Bol. 
6. §. auriculatum, Schp. 
Hab. in swamps, 8,000 to 9,000 ft., between forks of King’s River, Brew. In 
pools, near Mendocino, Bol. 
The form from Mendocino has a peculiar facies, which is not seen in any European 
specimens. The leaves are longer and narrower, the branches more slender and at- 
tenuated, similar to those of the floating large varieties of S. cuspidatum. But it has 
the lanceolate-pointed shape of the leaves, especially the loosely reticulated branch 
leaves, and the stem leaves with fibrillose stems filled with very numerous round small 
pores, a character ascribed by Schimper to this species only. The differences may be 
considered as mere local variations. In the California moss the auricles of the stem 
leaves are not more developed than they are generally in S. subsecundum. 
7. S. eymbifolium, Ehrh. 
Hab. swamps near Mendocino City, Gol. 
PHASCACE AS. 
EPHEMERUM, Hampe. 
8. E. serratum, Hainpe. 
Hab. on the ground in fields and meadows, Mission Dolores, Bol. 
SPH.®RANGIUM, Schp. 
9. S. muticum, Schp. 
Hab. with the former, Pol. 
This species has not yet been found, to my knowledge, in the Atlantic States, 
where it is represented by an intermediate form equally referable to both 8. muticum 
and S. triquetrum, Schp. It is S. triquetrum, var. No. 31, of the Musci Exsice. Amer., 
Ed. 2d. 
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