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Budleigh Salterton, Devon (Ley); Trelleck Bog, Monmouth 
(Ley); Holt, E. Norfolk (Burrell); Nant Pedor, Carmarthenshire 
(Ley); Islay ((ilmour). 
11) Var. virescens Warnst. in litt. (Syn. var. viride Warnst. ?) 
Plant pale or grass-green throughout, or in the upper part only, 
and whitish below; with no admixture of red. 
Pirbright Common, Surrey (Sherrin). 
11. §. moze Sulliv. Muse. Allegh. p. 50, No. 205 (1846). 
Syn. 8. Miilleri Schimp. Entw. Gesch. d. Torfm. p. 78 (1858). 
Exsice. Braithwaite, Sphagn. Exsicc. Brit. No. 21 (exle. spec. 
infer. ad sinistr.) et No. 21c. 
In dense and short or looser and taller tufts. Plants in the 
upper part generally pale- or greyish-green, more rarely tinged 
with pale-violet. Resembling in habit in most cases small forms 
of S. subnitens. 
Wood-cylinder always yellowish or whitish. ‘ 
Stem-cortex irregularly 2-4-layered ; cells of medium width, thin- 
walled; the outer walls non-porose, inner walls with scattered pits 
and small pores. ‘ 
Stem-leaves from a narrower base, distinctly widened to the 
middle, and then narrowed to a short, widely truncate and coarsely 
toothed apex; margins of the leaf with narrow border, which is 
not—or, especially in non-fibrillose leaves, but_ little—widened 
. Hyaline cells once or several times divided by oblique 
cross-walls, and on the same stem either quite without fibrils and 
pores, or in the upper half of the leaf or even lower with fibrils and 
pores; pores on the inner surface of the leaf in the apical part 
remarkably large, round or roundish-elliptical, generally as wide as 
the cell, and situated between the fibrils ; on the outer surface like 
those on the branch-leaves. 
Auricles large, fibrose and porose. : 
Fascicles generally near together, more rarely distant, with 3-4 
branches; the one or two stronger spreading branches are variously 
directed, and are very thin at the apex; leaves loosely arranged or 
almost squarrose. Branch-leaves rather large, resembling the stem- 
leaves, ovate-lanceolate, not bordered or with a narrow border of 
1-2 cells. In the lower half of the leaf, on the outermost marginal 
Journau or Borany.—Vot. 388. [Juxy, 1900.) bd 
