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Floiuers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsules oval. 

 Locality. Bogs and pools. 



Variety. 8. obesuin, stout bog moss ; stems very tHck ; branches thick ; leaves 

 large ; growing in water. 



Fig. 11. Sphagnum squaeeosum. 



Spreading-leaved Bog Moss (a) . 



Colour. Whitish-brown. 



Stems. Rigid ; three inches to one foot or more long. Branches two to four to- 

 gether ; fewer and more scattered than in S. cantor turn, attenuated^ deflexed. 



Leaves (6). OvatOj acuminatOj acute, spreadiag (squarrose) , recurved. 



Floivers and Fridt. Monoicous. Capsule large. All the species of Sphagnum 

 bear fruit in summer. 



