THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACE 389 
(Wilson); Widdy Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Horrell) ; see 
Forest, Sussex (Horrell); Theydon Bois, Epping Forest, Ess 
(Horrell) ; Linwood Warren, Market Rasen, Lincolnsh. (alien 
(Anderson); Lyndhurst Bog, Hants (Ley); Shappen Bog, near 
Brockenhurst, Hants (Ley); Glen Rosa, Arran (Ley); Alt Goch 
awk Bog g, Carmarthen (Ley) ; Roseberry hee N.E 
. 8. AQUATILE ated in ves ‘. Bot. ae Pio. Brandenb. 
xli. 109, 31. 
S. subsecundum Auct. pro parte. 
Plants closely resembling in habit a robust S. rufescens; green 
the upper part, with more or less violet intermixed; the greater 
ged. 
tem-cortex in one layer. 
Wood-cylinder whitish or pale yellow 
Stem-leaves lingulate, toothed on sr "proadly truncate apex, 
border aif and of equal width all round, 1-86 mm. long and 
1 mm. ; hyaline cells fibrillose to the base, i in the basal half 
here att pe septate, on the inner surface with numerous small 
bordered pores in rows on the commissures, on the outer surface, 
on the contrary, with only a few scattered pores in the cell- 
angles; in the lower part Jot the leaf on both sides with pores in 
the upper cell-angles only. 
Fascicles ae with three branches, of which the two 
stronger are spreading, up to 10 mm. long, loosely leaved and 
gradually Lontitinws : “brinch- leaves of F mais size, ovate-lanceo- 
late, toothed on the truncate apex, border narrow, concave, margin 
widely inrolled, when dry erecto-patent, when wet loosely imbricate. 
Hyaline cells with numerous fibrils, on the outer surface with nu- 
merous small ringed pores in rows on the tert fateh on the inner 
surface with similar pores, but fewer in number not in rows. 
Chlorophyllose cells in section rectangular ny almost 
shaped, median, free on both surfaces; hyaline cells concave on 
both surfaces. 
merged in moorland pools 
Dist Germany; England; Wales. Whitmoor, W. Lancs 
(Wis a Wheldon) ; between Talsarnau and Maentwrog, Meri- 
nethsh. (Jones € Horrell) ; Langdon Beck, Durham (Ingham). 
40. 8. CRASsIcLApuM Warnst. Bot. Centralbl. xl. 1889, 165. 
Braithw. Sphagn. Brit. Exsicc. 1877, No. 19a (sub 
nom. 8. subsecundo var. auriculato). 
Generally completely submerged or with the upper part above 
water; very robust, and resembling in habit S. cymbifolium or a 
long- branched S. rufescens ; in the upper part greyish green, below 
pa aler or brownish 
cortex in one layer, cells very thin- -walled, on one side of the 
Sencistaleuis sometimes much wider than on the other, non-porose, 
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