“THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACES 298 
Var. fusco-glaucescens Warnst. in Schrift. der Naturf. Ges. in 
Danzig, N. F. Bd. ix. Ht.2,1897,154. Plants having the capitulum 
brownish, bleached below. 
Var. fusco-virescens Warnst. in Europ. Torfm. 1881, 49. Dark 
green above, grey-brownish belo 
ar. griseum Warnst. in Bot. es der arm Brandenburg, xxx. 
1888, 114. Plants aio green throughou 
Var. obscurum Warnst. l.c. Plants of an al dull colour. 
Var. pallescens Warnst. l.c. The entire plant whitish, or in the 
eapitulum slightly ane with pale greenish, reddish or yellowish ; 
dark green entirely absent. 
Jura (Ewing) ; Monee: (Ley); Burnham Common, Bucks 
Var. pallido- rears Warnst. in Schrift. der Naturf. Ges. in 
Danzig, N.F. Bd. ix. Ht. 2,1897,154. Plants having the capitulum 
hr iasueuk bleached pe 
purpurascens Warnst. n Hedwigia, 1888, 274. Plants in 
the Gass part, and phen hag in nis capitulum, of a beautiful rose 
to purple-red colour ; paler below, but without admixture of green. 
Var. roseum Warnst. in Bot. Ver. der Prov. Brand. og 1899, 
37. Plants having the capitulum rose-red ; are belo 
Widdy Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Hore ell). 
ar. rubrum Warnst. i n Bot. Moh der Proy. Brandenburg, xxx. 
1888, 114. Plants red thronghon 
Var. versicolor Warns ges Ver. der Prov. Brandenburg, 
xxx. 114. Plants of various shades of green and red mingle 
beers 5 generally more or less red in the capitulum, green dow 
Widdy Bank Fell, iP Durham (Horrell); Tilgate Forest, 
Sussex (Horral) Islay (Le 
ride War oa in Bot. Ver. der Prov. Brandenburg, xxx. 
. var. virescens Warnst. Europ. Torfm. No. 78). Plants 
Brookwood, Surrey airiees, Keston Common, Kent (Horrell) ; 
ie —— ‘Sussex (Ho rell) ; Cennant Llenyrch, oe 
vat ones) ; "Maentwrog, Mesacth (Horrell) ; Islay (Le 
a venERUM Warnst. Beitr. zur Kenntn. Exot. Sph. in a 
vii, 1890, 194. 
S. acutifolium var. tenerum Aust. in herb. 
+ fe robust than the most robust forms of 8. acutifolium. 
Stem-cortew of 2-3 layers; cells thin- walled and wide, at times 
the outer fie: porose, the inner walls with small pores. 
toothed apex ; border narrow almost 
boa ate eo Hyaline cells generally divided by oblique cross- 
walls; fibrils numerous to the base; on the inner surface with large 
round — on the outer with semi-elliptical pores in rows on the 
commissu 
F iackelen. generally with four branches; all the branches long 
and comparatively thick, the pendent branches being but little 
