HE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACER 387 
Stem-leaves of medium size, from 1 mm. to 1:4 mm. in length, 
lingulate, obtuse and rounded at the finely toothed apex, always 
fibrillose in the upper sag rarely to the base; hyaline cells 
he 
Fasvisles of 8-5 branches, _ sj 3 ager =: recurved or ratratiil 
rather short and acuminate, the leaves loosely imbricate or 
spreading, sometimes closely bese seq UBtReS more or less 
secun 
Br wih: leaves small to medium size, ovate, obtuse and toothed 
and in rows on the commissures, or sometimes few; on the inner 
: e. 
Chiorophyllose cells in section ores Soe with the thickened 
walls free on both surfaces ; lumen 
Hab. Submerged or in ver t ‘i n moorland pools. 
- A urr 
Trengwainton Bog, Pen ee (Ours Stonsall, ‘York patho 
Au poe Burn, Killin (Coe/ ts). 
he gaides Warnst. in Verh. d, Bot. Ver. d. Prov. Brandenb. 
xh. hie’ 
yn. - "Graven Russ. Arch. Naturk. Liv. Est. und Kurlands, 
ser. 2, Bd. x. Lfg. 4, 1894, 423, pro parte. 8. subsecundum Auct 
Braithw. Sphagn. Brit. Exsice. 1877, No. 19¢ (sub 
Tufts generally very robust, resembling a large S. A beicier 
sometimes less robust and resembling S. subsecundum ; submerged 
or in very wet places, green — brownish or pale below, some- 
times with red or purple interm 
Wood-cylinder aoe: penaeally brown. 
Stem-cortex in one 
Stem- ate ied tafe. from a narrower base, broadly lingulate, 
toothed on the widely trations apex, border narrow, f 
th se, on all inner surface almost without pores and only with 
scattered small pores near the lateral margins, on the outer surface 
numerous, in rows on the a i 
Fascicles of 8-4 branches, 2 or 8 stronger spreading, rather 
short, acuminate, leave s loosely arranged. Branch-leaves of m: edium 
size, ovate-lanceolate, SREY, with 1 inrolled margin, toothed at the 
truncate apex, pores the outer surface ite! numerous, in rows 
e commissures, chet inner surface v ew. 
rie ue ophyllose cells j in section tastariilae free on both surfaces, 
umen 
Ha b. in mossy pools. 
Distri many; England; Wales. Broadgate Bog, Staveley, 
Westureclans (Bar pea) ‘Nant Pedor, Carmarthenshire (Ley). 
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