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Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule very smaU, on long stalk {pedicle) ; brown. 

 Locality. Bogs. 



The most delicate-looking of tke species. 



Fig. 5. Sphagnum eubbllum. 



Red Bog Moss (a) . 

 Colour. Dull red. 

 Stems. Two to four inches long. Branches tapering to a point {attenuated), 



two and three together, turning back {deflexed) . 

 Leaves {b) . Smallj roundish-ovate, very concave. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule small. Very rare. 

 Locality. Bogs. 



II. Leaves pointed {acuminate)., ovate., or ovate-lanceolate. 

 Fig. 6. Sphagnum AcuriFOLitm. 



Sharp-leaved Bog Moss {a) . 



Colour. Dirty brown ; shoots often tinged with red or lilac. 



Stems. Three to twelve inches long. Branches three to five together, the lower 



one or two together, and deflexed. 

 Leaves (6) . Pointed egg-shaped {ovate-lanceolate) . Perichgetial leaves small. 

 Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule brownish-black. Very common. 

 Locality. Bogs and marshes ; with 8. cymbifoUum the most abundant of the 



species. 



Fig. 7. Sphagnum pimbeiatum. 



Fringed Bog Moss {a) . 



Colour. Whitish-green. 



Stems. Very slender, branches slender, the upper three to five together, the 



lower one and two, and deflexed. 

 Leaves (b) . Branch-leaves {b) ovate, lance-shaped, running to a point {acuminate), 



stem-leaves (e) very broad, fi-inged at the end {fimbriated) . Perichfetial 



leaves very large. 



