850 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
apex; the broadly bordered margin inrolled; the upper bracts 
formed of both kinds of cells ; the hyaline cells in the apical part 
of the leaf rhomboid, all or only some of them with fibrils, and 
ebsaet: smooth, 88 » in ened 
A Wet places on heaths on moorlands both in the plains 
and in ash Scere: frequently intermixed with other bog-mosses. 
Dist Ger many, Austria, Holland, Belgium, France, Den- 
mark, Nona, Sweden, Finl and, Ru ussia; North America. Brook- 
: en- 
zance, Cornwall (Ley); Keston Common, Kent (Horvell) Widdy 
Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Horrell) ; Silchester Common, N. 
Hants (Wil son); Ulpha Moss, Westmoreland (West); Cennant 
‘Lienyrch, Merionethshire (Jones); Nant Pedor, Carmarthenshire 
(Ley 
“This very pretty species varies little, the forms being directly 
due to the character of _ habitat. Of these Warnstorf enumerates 
reaching to 25 cm. seus ng, branches distant, grey- 0 ow-green, 
feondiebanacsek branches often several centimetres ne, and situated 
o capitulum.— f. compacta Warnst. growing in 
arranged.—f. gracile Warnst. is a very delicate weak form with 
G 
r 
—f. stricta Réll. is anocladous, and f. longifolia Lindb. is a er 
form with Shei abate differcintieted branch and stem-leaves 
tv. SpHaGNa PotycLapa Warnst. 
This section contains only the single species S. Wulfianum 
Gir ch te : amg for the large number of branches (7-18) in 
eac 
8. Wonrianum Girgens. in Archiv fiir Naturk. Liv. Est. & 
iets ser. 2, Bd. ii. 178, 1860. Baan 
xsice. Braithw. Sphagn. Brit. Exsice. No. 46 (1877 
(Addend. Exoticum). so . ( , 
Plants robust, with dense, large copy in, pale green to 
brown, with a reddish tinge owing to the numerous male 
branches. Siac rigid and stout, up to 20 em. high, 2-4 times 
d. 
Wood-cylinder dark red 
Stem-cortex irregularly 2-3-layered ; inner cells thick- walled, 
red; outer, thin-wall 
Stem-leaves small, ‘triangular- -lingulate,. with narrow border, 
widened below; hyaline cells several times septate, above gene- 
rally with scattered pores. 
