344 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
tufts in bogs. Fascicles sometimes very — So more 
distantly arranged; spreading branches very thin, short and re- 
rigid ; fascicles towards the apex very closely set, forming a dense 
roundish capitulum ; spreading — long and reas taper- 
ing to a very thin apex; leaves closely arranged all round the 
branch, with only the apex or the = upper half prnat 2 patent 
to ar squarrose, somewhat undulat 
. S. recurvum Russ. & Warnst. sii d. Naturforscher- 
Gea in Dorpat (1889). 
Syn ray Hoffm. (ex p.) Deutsch. Fl. ii. 22, 1795. 
Exsice. Braithw. Sphagn. Beit Exsice. no. 47 (1877). 
Inhabiting secuege rarely completely submerged in water. 
Plants sometimes robust, sometimes more delicate to very slender 
green, whitish, yellow-green to brownish, rarely the easiusdiws 
reddish or dirty-viole 
Wood-cylinder whitish, OER yellowish or reddish. 
Stem-cortea generally abse 
Stem-leaves generally ala, equilateral to shortly isosceles- 
triangular, acute or obtuse, sometimes almost short-lingulate an 
scialinuast -gaps on ihe inner wpa 
fascicles distant or et with 15 branches, the two stronger 
branches spreading, the other weaker ones generally closely ap- 
pressed to the stem. site of the spreading branches larger or 
so hat 
line cells ea and est with numerous fibrils, which ‘project 
considerably into the cavity of the cell; on the inner side almost 
well differentiated; in the latter case they have on the outer sur- 
face, near the apex or near the lateral ees large membrane- 
gaps in the upper cell-angles, as in S. ripari 
PSS nO cells in section in the Saen half of the leaf tri- 
angular and completely enclosed on the inner surface by the hyaline 
cells, which are not united together for ‘ony appreciable distance. — 
