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  -J 
  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE, 
  225 
  

  

  Mil 
  Lesq^ 
  

  

  No. 
  T-^O:^ 
  

  

  Branch 
  leaves 
  squarrose-spreading 
  throughout. 
  

  

  000 
  ft. 
  (7^ 
  

  

  (B?'e2ver) 
  ; 
  New 
  Hampshire, 
  Mt. 
  W' 
  

  

  That 
  S. 
  sqtiarrosuluui 
  Lesq. 
  can 
  not 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  form- 
  

   series 
  of 
  S. 
  squarrosum 
  is 
  surely 
  proved 
  by 
  the 
  dioicous 
  in- 
  

   florescence, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  by 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  branches 
  and 
  

   then- 
  bracts 
  which 
  quite 
  agree 
  with 
  S. 
  teres. 
  

  

  IV. 
  Sphagna 
  polyclada. 
  

  

  22. 
  S. 
  Wulfianum 
  Girg. 
  in 
  Arch. 
  Nat. 
  Liv.-Est. 
  und 
  

   Kurl. 
  2. 
  Ser. 
  2. 
  p. 
  173 
  (i860). 
  

  

  Syn. 
  : 
  S. 
  cuspidatum, 
  var. 
  patens 
  Aongstr. 
  MSS. 
  Lindb. 
  in 
  Oefvers. 
  

   V. 
  Ak. 
  Forh., 
  p. 
  137 
  (18G2). 
  

  

  S. 
  pycnodadum 
  Aongst. 
  in 
  Oefvers. 
  V. 
  Ak. 
  Forh. 
  p. 
  202 
  (1864). 
  

  

  Canada, 
  New 
  York, 
  Greenland. 
  

  

  Var. 
  versicolor 
  Warnst. 
  1889 
  in 
  litt. 
  

  

  Color, 
  especial]}- 
  in 
  the 
  coma, 
  a 
  beautiful 
  rose- 
  or 
  violet- 
  

   red 
  mixed 
  with 
  yellowish-green. 
  

  

  N.Hampshire, 
  Franconia, 
  1,000 
  ft.; 
  Vermont, 
  Sutton, 
  

   1,000 
  tt. 
  {/^axou). 
  

  

  Var. 
  viride 
  Warnst. 
  

  

  Whole 
  plant 
  grass-green, 
  blanched 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  

  

  n 
  /i^ 
  I^^'impshire, 
  Franconia, 
  1,000 
  ft. 
  ; 
  Mass., 
  Dedham, 
  75 
  

   It. 
  {Faxon). 
  

  

  The 
  position 
  of 
  this 
  well 
  marked 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  very 
  

   clitterently 
  understood 
  bv 
  the 
  various 
  investigators. 
  Some- 
  

   times 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  Acutifolium 
  group, 
  sometimes 
  

   1^ 
  the 
  CuspiDATA, 
  sometimes 
  in 
  the 
  Squarrosa 
  ; 
  indeed, 
  

   J:^impncht 
  in 
  the 
  Kryptogamen-fl. 
  von 
  Deutschland 
  even 
  re- 
  

   Tt 
  \^ 
  ^° 
  ^^^ 
  RiGiDUM 
  group. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  me, 
  however, 
  that 
  

   belongs 
  to 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  groups 
  menr:oned, 
  but 
  that, 
  by 
  its 
  

   anatomical 
  structure 
  and 
  especially 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  numer- 
  

   ous 
  brandies 
  (6 
  to 
  13) 
  in 
  a 
  fascicle, 
  it 
  represents 
  a 
  separate 
  

   ^^pe 
  among 
  the 
  Sphagna, 
  to 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  in 
  vain 
  sought 
  for 
  

   an 
  analogue 
  among 
  all 
  the 
  known 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  earth, 
  

   although 
  I 
  have 
  examined 
  already 
  about 
  200 
  established 
  

   -Pecies. 
  I 
  therefore 
  do 
  not 
  hesitate 
  to 
  consider 
  S. 
  M 
  ul- 
  

   nanum 
  as 
  the 
  only 
  present 
  representative 
  of 
  a 
  separate 
  group, 
  

   /^e 
  bPHAGXA 
  POLYCLADA. 
  The 
  case 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  with 
  Sphag- 
  

   numAongstramii, 
  not 
  yet 
  met 
  within 
  N. 
  America, 
  which 
  also 
  

   account 
  as 
  the 
  representative 
  of 
  a 
  separate 
  group, 
  the 
  

  

  ^^''HAGXA 
  TRUXCATA. 
  

  

  