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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTK, 
  [ 
  AugUSt 
  

  

  y 
  

  

  coma 
  slightly 
  tinged 
  with 
  pale 
  greenish, 
  reddish 
  or 
  yellow- 
  

   ish, 
  and 
  below 
  it 
  whitish 
  or 
  faintl}^ 
  greenish 
  ; 
  dark 
  green 
  en- 
  

   tirely 
  absent. 
  

  

  N. 
  Hampshire, 
  Crawford's, 
  1,900 
  ft. 
  ; 
  Mass,, 
  Boston, 
  50 
  ft., 
  

   ( 
  Fax 
  Oil) 
  , 
  

  

  f. 
  dasy-drepanoclada 
  Warxst, 
  Tufts 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  

  

  branch-fascicles 
  extremely 
  compact, 
  spreading 
  branches 
  

   comparatively 
  short, 
  slender 
  and 
  usually 
  falcate-recurved. 
  

   N. 
  Hampshire, 
  Mt. 
  Washington, 
  5,006ft. 
  {Faxon). 
  

  

  Y* 
  Stem 
  leaves 
  large, 
  isosceles-triangularj 
  drawn 
  out 
  to 
  a 
  longer 
  or 
  

   shorter 
  truncate, 
  dentate, 
  involute-edged 
  point. 
  Border 
  broad 
  

   and 
  much 
  widened 
  downward; 
  hyaline 
  cells 
  usually 
  completely 
  

   noufibrillose,rarely 
  with 
  rudimentary 
  fibrils 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  many 
  

   times 
  divided 
  and 
  with 
  membrane-plaits. 
  Wood 
  cylinder 
  vari- 
  

   ously 
  colored. 
  Branch 
  leaves 
  comparatively 
  large, 
  ghmj 
  ^^'^^^ 
  

   rfrj/, 
  usually 
  loosely 
  imbricate, 
  often 
  with 
  curved 
  erect 
  spread- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  squarrose 
  tips. 
  Generally 
  monoicou.-?, 
  rarely 
  dioicous. 
  

  

  Male 
  branches 
  red. 
  

  

  9. 
  S. 
  subuitens 
  Russ. 
  et 
  Warnst. 
  in 
  Verh. 
  d. 
  bot. 
  Ver. 
  fur 
  

   Brandenb. 
  Jahrg. 
  1888, 
  p. 
  115. 
  

  

  Syn.: 
  S, 
  acutifolium, 
  var, 
  plumosum 
  Milde, 
  Bryol. 
  Sil., 
  p. 
  382 
  (1869).- 
  

   x^v.lundum 
  (Hiiben.) 
  Aongstr, 
  in 
  litt. 
  ad 
  Gravet 
  (1876).— 
  var. 
  IMemrens 
  

  

  lagn 
  

  

  . 
  squm-rosuimn, 
  luriaum 
  

  

  Mrida, 
  hmosa, 
  ehngata 
  Warnst. 
  Sphagnol. 
  Riickbl. 
  Flora 
  lS84.-var. 
  

   flavicomans 
  Card. 
  Rev. 
  Bryol. 
  1884. 
  

  

  S. 
  plumosum 
  Roll. 
  varr. 
  sichmersum 
  ?, 
  lundum, 
  ehngatum, 
  Mevirens, 
  

   pluvv,mm 
  mdacewm, 
  liviosum, 
  squarrosulum, 
  Schilknanum 
  in 
  Syst. 
  a. 
  

   Torfm. 
  Flora, 
  1886. 
  

  

  S^ 
  luridum 
  (Huben.) 
  Warnst. 
  Hedw., 
  1886, 
  p. 
  230. 
  

  

  ^ 
  This 
  is 
  among 
  the 
  strongest 
  of 
  the 
  Acutifolia. 
  -P^^"^^ 
  

  

  ^. 
  -^ 
  ^fjj^ 
  ^Hfj^ 
  jj^Qj.^ 
  Q^ 
  les8 
  of 
  metallic 
  lustre- 
  

  

  •^ 
  - 
  ellow- 
  

  

  Colors 
  quite 
  various, 
  gray, 
  or 
  grass-green, 
  pale 
  yell 
  

   green, 
  yellowish-brown, 
  violet 
  to 
  purple-red, 
  not 
  rarely 
  P 
  

  

  ask- 
  

  

  ing 
  into 
  a 
  dirty 
  green 
  or 
  violet. 
  

  

  red. 
  

  

  Wood 
  cylinder 
  greenish, 
  whitish, 
  violet 
  to 
  dark 
  pu'T^^' 
  

  

  Stem 
  cortex 
  formed 
  of 
  3 
  or 
  4 
  strata 
  of 
  cells, 
  and 
  usualH 
  

   on 
  one 
  side 
  ofthe 
  stem 
  much 
  more 
  strongly 
  developed 
  and 
  

   with 
  much 
  wider 
  cells 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  cells 
  thin- 
  walled, 
  the 
  super- 
  

   hcial 
  rarely 
  with 
  isolated 
  pores, 
  the 
  inner 
  always 
  with 
  srnaU 
  

   pits, 
  fetem 
  leaves 
  large, 
  elongated, 
  isosceles-triangular- 
  

   broad 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  not 
  rarely 
  with 
  undulate 
  margins 
  in 
  tH^ 
  

  

  