256 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Hab. 8. subnitens is - widely distributed, and is found both 
in the mountains, on moor a n the plains. It prefers bogs 
and Peeve wet and shady pla 
. Common thronghout almost the whole of Europe; 
Nort ver Asia; Afr 
ould appear to a “mitch the commonest member of the 
ue group in Brit 
umerous peire are based upon the colour of the tufts, 
and the forms upon the length and direction of the spreading 
branches and the greater or less robustness of the plants. 
ar. carneum Russ. apud Warnstorf, Europ. Torfm. ser. iii. 
No. 245 scart Tufts of a pale flesh-colour throu 
(2 Jlavescens Warnst. Tufts generally yellowish or 
yellowish- sttieg with more or less admixture of green. 
Penzance, Cornwall (Ley); St. Mary’s, Scilly (Ley); ; Whixall 
Moss, — (Ley); Ennerdale Lake, Cumberland (Ley). 
3 r. flavicomans Card. in Rev. bryol. 1884, 55 (sub S. acuti- 
folio). Pack very aol in loose or dense rather deep tufts, 
yellowish-brown, resembling S. fuscum in colour. Wood-cylinder 
blood-red ; superficial cortical cells with single pores; stem-leaves 
non- fibrillose, or with fibrils in the upper par rt only. Branch-leaves 
large, longish-ovate, apex broadly truncate and dentate, shining 
(4) Var. flavo-rubellum Warnst. in litt. Colour a mixture of 
rose-red and yellowish, sometimes the red predominating, some- 
times the yellow 
Lyndhurst, Nae Forest, Hants (Ley); Trelleck Bog, Monmouth 
Ley) ; Dungeon Ghyll, Westmoreland (Paul); Rhos Goch, Radnor 
(Ley); Borth Bog, Gandia (Ley). 
ar. griseum Warnst. in Bot. Ver. der Prov. Brandenb. xxx. 
1888, 118. Tufts = a uniform greyish-green throughout. 
Roseberry Topping, N.EK. Yorkshire (Horreil). 
6) Var. aecate um mW araek in Bot. Gaz. xv. 1890, 196. Plants 
very robust, in tall loose tufts. Colour above a mixture of a 
green and pale dirty brown; below brownish. General colour a 
ey e 
ar, pallescens Warnst. in Europ. Torfm. ser. ii. No. 165 
(1890). (Syn. var. padlens ene Colour pale green above, 
Ww. 
Gallow’s Hill, Cromarty (Ogilvie-Grant). 
8) Var. purpurascens Schlieph. apud Warnst. in Bot. Ver. der 
Prov. Brandenb. xxx, 1888, 118. Colour purplish throughout. 
ant Pedor, Carmarthenshire (Ley); Cwm Idwal, Carnarvon- 
shire ‘(Horrell ys 
(9) Var. versicolor Warnst. l. ce. Colour a mixture of red and 
green, Sask a the one predominating, sometimes the other. 
Widdy Ban — nae Durham (Horrell) ; Goathland, 
N.E. Sesh (Hor) 
(10) Var. pe Ss Warnst. in litt. Colour a lighter or darker 
bec sometimes uniform sarenent sometimes only violet in the 
upper part, and grey or green below : 
