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Var. flavum C. Jens. apud Warnst. in Bot. Ver. der Pro 
Brandenburg, xxx. p. 106 (sub S. tenello). Plants yellow aah. 
ance, Cornwall (Ley); Borth bog, Cardigan (Ley) ; Maent- 
Var. pallescens Warnst. in Bot. Gaz. xv. p. 187 (sub S. ee ): 
Plants whitish, or pale cillowish green above, in the middle 
times pale brownish or very faint red; male branches a dull siolat. 
Widdy Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Horrell). 
Var. pallido- guctcale Warnst. in Schrift. der Naturf. Ges. in 
Danzig N. F. Bd. ix. Heft 2, 1896, p. 154 (sub S. tenello). Capitu- 
ae pale yellowish to whitish, sometimes pale green; bleached 
Var. purpurascens Warnst. in Samml. Europ. Torfm. No. 64 
(sub S. tenello ). Colour for the most part a ae pre red. 
Var. rubrum Grav. apud Warnst. J. 2 (sub S. tenello). 
Colour a sho of dark purple-violet and ; Hie in the upper part ; 
pale or ihe irty red below. 
wby Bridge, North Lancashire (Pau 
Var versicolor Russ. apud Warnst. in ane der Naturf. Ges. 
in Danzig N. F. Bd. ix. Heft. 2, 1896, p. 154 pune: tenello). Tuftsa 
dirty pale see eae with some yellow inter 
lpha M Oh ae va ‘Brookwood, Surrey (herrin) 
Islay Che ddy Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Horrell 
ar. acing! Wanist. in Bot. Ve r. der Prov. ‘Brandenburg 
xxx. p. 106 (sub S. eas Colour violet throughou 
Var. viride Warnst. l.c. (sub S. tenello). Tuts ely or vivid 
green throughout, with scalar any admixture of red; male branches 
violet-red 
eee tie Common, Bucks (Sherrin). 
S. ruscum Klinggr. in Beschr. d. i. Preussen gef. Art. u. Varr. 
d. Geis Sphagnum (Schri ft. d. phys.-dk. Ges. i. Kénigsb. 1872, ag 
Syn. > S. acutifolium var. fuscum Schimp. Entw.-gesch. d. Torfm. 
1858, 57. 
Exsice. Braithw. Sphagn. Brit. ane No. 39. 
Tufts denser or looser, widel ended or more frequently 
cushion-like. Colour usually a patchy nee grey-green intermixed 
with brown or reddish-brown, more rarely whitish or green. 
scouring to the lpr ee taller ¥ shorter, usually thin and delicate, 
as in S. rubelluy torfit. 
Wood cloner always es a with strongly thickened central 
Stem- cortex irregularly 8—4-, rarely 5- layered, formed of medium- 
sized, bai me _ eels superficial cells without pores; inner cells 
by 
oblique cross-walls, and with delicate lnginadinn! plice in the 
onl hema eiie basal cells swollen and enlarg 9 
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