14 THE CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF KENT. 
Easily gern peg from all the other species by the leaves being 
nearly flat, with their margins wavy when dry, also by the stem 
having a rigid habit we thick appearance, from the pendent branches 
being closely appressed. 
S. cusprparum, Khrh. 
In very wet bogs or on the margins of Boole in woods and on 
heaths, July. oe Mier. rec dige 1875, t. 9 
Keston Common; Howse ! 
The be are singula hy narrow and elongated in this species 
Cpartculaiy in the var. plumosum, which has not yet been recorded 
for 
sitet: Ehrh. S&S. eapillifolium, Swartz (Forster Tonbr.). 
In compact cushions, usually of a more or less reddish tint, the 
heads smaller than in most other species; in bogs. July. M. Mier 
; George! 
Var. rubellum, Ru mea S. rubellum (Wils. ; ; Berk.; Hobk.). 
Mier. Shon: 1872, t. 2 
eston Common; Cohie! 
Differs from the type only in ig dioicous and in having the 
male flowers in short obtuse branchlets 
8. ign oe Wils. 
In loose pale green tufts in bogs and marshy hollows. July. 
M. Micr. Journ., 1874, t. i 
Keston Common; He ow 
Differs from S. paren in its pale green colour and very 
m. 
ste 
[ 8. strictum, Lindb., which is very similar in habit, but has usually 
orem tint and has br roadly truncate stem-leaves, should od 
ked f 
8. rexettum, Ehrh. S. molluseum, ery (Wils. ; Berk.). 
Usually mixed with other species the drier rods of eat 
bogs. July. M. Mier. — 1872, t. aks 
Keston Common; George! 
In this the leaves are very loosely imbricated, by which ahdtor, 
in conjunction with its small size and fragile habit, it i is readily dis- 
tinguished at sight from all other species ex cept 8. laricinum, Spruce 
(S. curvifolium, Wils. MSS. (Hobk.) ), a species which has not yet 
been recorded from Kent. 
hagna appear to be less frequent throughout Kent than in 
many other counties, which is probably due to the fact that most of 
the Payee erage are remarkably dry. Damp hollows, and pits or 
onds in woods appear to be the situations in which 
hkely to be met with. they nt ae 
Bryine. 
__ [Aypremacex.—None of the species of this family have been noticed 
in Kent, although Andreea rupestris, L. (A. petrophila, Ehrh.?) has 
been recorded in Forster Tonbr. from e High Rocks in Sussex 
found on: wet sand- 
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