THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACEX 805 
Wood-cylinder red. 
Stem-cortew in 8 or 4 (-5) layers of thin-walled cells; the inner 
walls with small pores; Gti et cell having a single pore 
on the outer surface near its upper 
tem-leaves large, more or Fab Tingulate and of equal width 
throughout, fimbriate on the rounded apex; border very pee 
; hyaline sone frequently divided, non-fibrillose ; cell-m 
brane resorbed to a considerable extent, below with large bates 
equalling the cell in widt. 
Fascicles crowde d toge ether ; et tal poe horizontal or 
und the stem 
having the fibrils near the leaf-base very delicate or rudimentary. 
auretong bracts oval, large, ee and rounded, fimbriate on 
the upper margin ; for rmed of two kinds of cells throughout ; 
— = and non-porose. Feat rare, borne on elongated 
ran 
Deep marshy moors, boggy borders of lakes, &c., 
aout in sub-alpine districts. 
Distrib. — distributed throughout middle and northern 
A 
Europe; Asia; mer 
1) Var. imbri regen Wittud n Bot. Gaz. xv. 1890, 224. All 
the branch-leaves appressed or some of them erecto-patent, none 
squarrose. 
Widdy Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Horrell); Broadgate 
bog, Ings, Yorkshire (Stabler); Saltersgate bog, Yorkshire (Boswell); 
Skeggles, Westmoreland (Stabler) ; _ chan, Kincardine (Sim) ; 
Eskdale, North-east Veckuiis (Ander. 
(2) Var. subsquarrosum Warnst. in Hedwigia, tp i Branch- 
leaves in part appressed or erecto-patent, in pa art squarrose. 
Widdy Bank soe Teesdale, Durham (Horrell) Skeggles, 
Westmoreland (Barn 
(8) Var. pie ae Warnst. in Bot. Gaz. xv. 1890, 
(syn. S. ieee Lesq.). Branch-leaves squarrose- -spreading 
througho 
eutatoed Moor, Cheshire (Wilson). 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 38. [Aue. 1900.] ¥ 
