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  VOL. 
  XV. 
  No. 
  9— 
  Botanical 
  Gazette 
  — 
  Sept., 
  i89o 
  

  

  Contributions 
  to 
  the 
  knowledge 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  Sphagna. 
  III. 
  

  

  C. 
  WARNSTORF. 
  

  

  B. 
  Branch 
  leaves 
  zvith 
  -pores 
  and 
  fibrils. 
  

  

  1. 
  Branch 
  leaves 
  ovate-lanceolate, 
  lanceolate 
  to 
  almost 
  long- 
  

   linear. 
  

  

  a. 
  Stem 
  leaves 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  with 
  resorbed 
  membranes, 
  and 
  

   therefore 
  the 
  apex 
  lacerate-fimbriate. 
  

  

  «• 
  Stem 
  leaves 
  widened 
  upward, 
  spatulate, 
  and 
  fringed 
  at 
  the 
  

   broad 
  rounded 
  apex, 
  like 
  S. 
  fimbriatura. 
  

  

  13- 
  S. 
  Lindbergii 
  ^GBiVn. 
  Entw.-Gesch. 
  d. 
  Torfm. 
  p. 
  67, 
  

   no. 
  6(1858). 
  

  

  Syn 
  : 
  5. 
  cuspidatum 
  ^.fulvum 
  Sendt. 
  MSS. 
  1838. 
  

  

  New 
  York, 
  Canada, 
  Newfoundland, 
  Greenland, 
  Miquelon 
  

   Island 
  {Delamare). 
  

  

  P- 
  Stem 
  leaves 
  triangular-linguiform, 
  lacerate 
  two-cleft 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex. 
  

  

  21, 
  p. 
  198 
  

  

  ifarium 
  Aongstr. 
  in 
  Oefvers. 
  V. 
  Ak. 
  Handl. 
  

  

  Syn.: 
  S. 
  cuspidalum 
  Y- 
  apeciosum 
  Euss. 
  Beitr. 
  p. 
  57 
  (1865). 
  

  

  S.8peciosum. 
  v 
  TTlinrro-y. 
  n«70^ 
  

  

  »• 
  specfabile 
  Schpr. 
  Synops. 
  2d 
  ed. 
  p. 
  834 
  (1876). 
  

  

  New 
  Herrenr.ut 
  (Spindler) 
  ; 
  Kot 
  

  

  Mitten) 
  ; 
  New 
  J 
  

   900 
  ft. 
  {Fi 
  

  

  Inis 
  beautiful, 
  most 
  characteristic 
  species 
  must 
  surely 
  be 
  

   ^ommon 
  in 
  North 
  America, 
  but 
  has 
  hitherto 
  been 
  mostly 
  

   j^^erlooked 
  or 
  not 
  distinguished. 
  Lindberg 
  regards 
  it, 
  in 
  

   ^ 
  ' 
  "j°ssor, 
  as 
  merely 
  a 
  sub-species 
  of 
  S. 
  cuspidatum 
  ; 
  Car- 
  

   with 
  S 
  ^ 
  "mentions 
  it, 
  in 
  Rev. 
  des 
  Sphaignes, 
  in 
  connection 
  

   pjn 
  fe. 
  cuspidatum 
  var. 
  Miquelonense 
  Ren. 
  et 
  Card. 
  Miss 
  

  

  Hen""/'M 
  ^^^^ 
  "°^ 
  include 
  it 
  in 
  her 
  Catal. 
  of 
  Muse, 
  and 
  

  

  P- 
  01 
  N. 
  America, 
  and 
  passes 
  over 
  it 
  in 
  silence. 
  

   Tor 
  ' 
  "P^"^"^ 
  ^S' 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  S. 
  cuspidatum, 
  var. 
  

   time^^^""™' 
  ^^^ 
  stateliest 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  Cuspid 
  ata, 
  and 
  some- 
  

   It 
  is^ 
  ^f'^^'^s 
  <^o 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  strong 
  forms 
  of 
  S. 
  squarrosum. 
  

   other 
  ^ 
  ^^'^X^ 
  ^^sily 
  and 
  certainly 
  distinguished 
  from 
  all 
  the 
  

  

  species 
  of 
  this 
  group 
  by 
  the 
  stem 
  leaves 
  which 
  are 
  tri- 
  

  

  