THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACEE 165 
base narrowed above, with the apex — truncate and toothed. 
edian hyaline cells above the base generally much widened ; never 
with pee fibres, never hemi-isoph silos. Pores of the stem- cortex 
large, numerous, — ed or more frequently not bordered. Rela- 
tiuals frequent in fru 
ar. commune “R ss. in Warnst. Kurop. Torfm. ser. 
no. 873 (1894). Stem-leaves of medium size, lingulate, en 
r to 
rarely ieaohy-cladous, eat homalo-, ano-, arte or dasy- 
cladous ; very rarely fruiting. Ind but not Pas wet places. 
close. Branches either elongate and ver e and 
apeeating: or recurved, or shorter and anocladous, earn ser in the 
capitulu 
(5) Vic. gracilescens Gray. apud Warnstorf in Hedwigia, 1884 
119. A slender delicate form of the habit of S. fimbriatum, with 
elongate recurved spreading branches. 
ar. id bea Russ. in Warnst. ie mm. Europ. Torfm. 
m-leaves of medium size to large, lingu- 
fate, eae ie and fimbriate, apiulan eatbely distinct ; 
siege green, vivid green to yellowish- or brownish-green and 
wn; generally very robust, with the oe fascicles very regu- 
lay arranged in rows, ge nerally dasycladou 
Var. leptostachy ys Russ. in Warnstorf, Tate. Torfm. ser. i. 
no. i (1888). Plants 20- os m. high; tufts rather dense, not 
very widely spread, i ai am err: situations in bogs. Branches 
generally thin and ddlieats, ih filiform. Male branches somewhat 
markedly clavate, of a vivid yellow-rust colour. Plants yellow- or 
pale-green or Jade! grey-green; generally meso- a Syeladous, homalo- 
or ano-cladous, more rarely macro-catacladous or dasycladous. 
Stem-leaves large to very large, but little longer than wide, at the 
apex but little or not at all narrowed, broadly truncate and fimbriate 
Rarely fruitin 
(8) Var. molle Russ. in Warnstorf, Europ. Torfm. Plants 
5-15 cm. or more in length, weak and delicate, Hight to rather dark 
green tinged with yellow or brown, to dark brownish-yellow, some- 
times bluish- or grass-green, darker coloured below. Meso- to 
