THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACEE 885 
with fibrils and small pores. Spores rust-coloured, 28-82 p in 
diameter, finely papillose 
Hab very wet ein and especially in deep peat bogs, 
ais, panstige 
Throughout Europe; N. America. Petty Pool, Vale 
Royal, “Cheshire (Whitehead) ; ; near Over, Cheshire (W. Wilson) ; 
Barbon Low tee Westmoreland (Barnes); Grayrig, Westmoreland 
(Barnes); Penzance, Cornwall (Ley); Newbridge Bog, Ashdown 
Forest, Sussex “(Nicholson m). 
84, ms Pett eees Warnst. in Flora, 1884, 481. 
i iculatum Angst. in Oefv. Vet. Akad. xxi. 1864, ebro 
Sch 0) 5 ne ectoceeneni B isophyllum Russ. Beitr. zur Kenntn 
Torfm. 1 ,exparte; 8. laricinum vary. ter sstaeitih pathy 
et cyelophyllum Lindb. in Not. iir Sallsk. pro Fauna et nn. xiii 
1874, 402. S.laricinum var. subsimplea Lindb. Musci. Shai 1879, 11, 
Easiec. Braithw. Sphagn. Brit. Exsicc. No. 14 
Tufts very loose, ge 7-25 and 80 em. high, pale green, 
green, greenish yellow or ae yellow, brownish green to dark 
dirty green or dirty bro 
Stems soft, wine colouties or brownish ; cortea in 14 to 2 layers, 
rarely in three 
‘ascicles aciltatibig of from 1-3 branches, which are caged 
short ‘ana thick, but sometimes thin and of medium lengt 
eee ee or sometimes when dry imbricate re very Rech 
an llen 
Branch-leaves large, ovate to broadly ovate-oval, with the apex 
Lieiniied: and indistinctly toothed, very concave, with the margin 
inrolled in the ge half or all r ound ; generally 1:8 mm. long 
and 1-2 mm. wide; sometimes, however, up to 4 mm. in length. 
Hyaline cells either celiibealy short, and rhomboid or rectangular, 
or longer and bluntly spindle shaped nd somewhat sigmoid 
res on the outer surface either small and scattered and inter- 
mingled with pseudopores, or large re numerous and 
arranged in rows on the commissures the inner surface w 
with 
scattered pores mixed with numerous pseudopores. Fibrils sep 
and numerous throughout the leaf. 
rs yllose cells in sctsian generally barrel-shaped, sometimes 
very W 
J Stem- ee sometimes resembling the branch-leaves in form, 
size, and pore-structure, sometimes broadly jingu ulate-ovate, with 
r 
istrib. marl pe, rare; Russia, Denmark, Scandinavia, German 
Wales. Asia; N. America. Aber, se cat ire ord coe) 
35. S. susszounpum Limpr. Laubm. i. 1885, 119. 
yn. S. subsecundum Nees in Sturm, ‘Deutechl, Flora, ii. 1819, 
pro parte. 8. contortum var. subsecundum Wils. Bryol. Brit. 1855, 22. 
Journat or Botany.—Von, 88. [Ocr. 1900.] 28 
