164 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
cortex with not or only slightly recurved neck, at the apex with a 
single large opening, and frequently also with an unringed pore in 
the middle. Branch-leaves in form and cell-structure similar to 
8S. Jimbriatum, lanceolate, toothed si the rounded-truncate apex, 
margin incurved above, narrowly bordered, in the middle of the 
leaves of the corresponding branches as in S, fenbriadaaa 
Chlorophyllose cells in section shortly isosceles-trapezoid, inserted 
between the hyaline cells on the leaf inner surface, and free on both 
surfaces ; hyaline cells more convex on the outer surface of the leaf. 
ous; male brauches ited in os antheridium-bearing 
part, light brown, never red. Perigonial bracts somewhat br oader 
and shorter than the leaves of the sterile branches 8, above produced 
d upper parts with both kinds of cells, and at the apex itself 
again of usually small vermicular chlorophyllose cells o always 
without fibrils or pores. Auricles very small. Capsule large, on a 
longer or shorter a Spores yellow- ‘eae smooth. 
eed Fruit very ra 
b. Damp marshy ‘fir woods; rare in the piste | _ one of 
the soiaabal species in mountainous and alpine regio 
istrib. Scandinavia, Finland, Scotland, England Germany; 
Belgium, Asia, North America. 
8 98 Morag ait is most closely related to S. Russowii; but 
Russow, ania aving examined at least one thousand specimens 
of the former and five hundred of the latter, states that in no 
=~ was cet any difficulty in determining to which species 
any specimen should be referred, and was con nvinced that they 
obtuse. en a y ofeon rare y macro- or brachy-, homalo-, 
ak or cato-cladous, never ortho- or ano-cladous, "frequently 
eurycladous. In loose deep tufts in very damp or generally quite 
wet situations es sok a or mixed forests. ikl Boe of medium 
size, generally brachyphyllous, as broad or broader than long, rarely 
a little ages to sem times as long as wide; generally from the broad 
