890 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Wood-cylinder pale, yellowish or bro 
Stem-leaves large, widely oval- a ee slightly erg ciety 
what fimbriate on the rounded apex; border of equa all 
round, 4-5 cells wide. Hyaline generally ibrillose the 
leaf-base; on the inner surface in the upper two-thirds with 
the outer oe with small pores in the upper, or the upper and 
cells above the on only with a single pore in the upper cell- angle, 
and with peer eee “rsa here and there. 
Fascicles with generally three branches; the two spreading 
ee and oo8 _ shortly pointed, beatieles of the capitulum 
and 
cells with numerous fibrils. Pores on ie inner surface ‘numerous, 
he upper o 
lower cell-angles only, in the basal half and especially near the 
ae eral margins with numerous ringed bing ree are sometimes 
rranged in interrupted rows on the comm 
Chlorophyllose cells in section eackatinlad ‘ ‘trapezoid, free on 
both surfaces of the leaf, lumen large, “oblong- oval, hyaline cells 
Bsc convex on both sides 
istrib, England; France; Belgium; Germany. Abbot's 
Moss, Cheshire (Hoh): between Talsarnau and Maentwrog, 
Merionethsh. (Jones & Horrell) ; Blackroot Pool, Sutton Park, 
Warwick (Bagnall); Wimbledon Common, Surrey (Mayes); Trel- 
leck Bog, Monmouth (Ley); Fixby, W. Yorkshire (Hobkirk) ; 
th Sutherland (Dixon) ; near Tenthiins: Kent (Horrell). 
S. BarumensE Warnst. in Schrift. der Naturforsch. Gesellsch. 
in Danzig N.F. Bd. ix. Heft 2, 1896 160. 
Plants very robust, with large capitula, forming low, greyish- or 
bluish-green tufts 
tem-cortex in one layer 
Stem-leaves sie reich ovate, up to 2°57 mm. long and 1:48 mm. 
wide, toothed or what fimbriate on the roundish-truncate 
apex, margin more or of lobe inrolled, border narrow and of equal 
width throughout. Hyaline rug generally fibrillose to the leaf- 
base and divided here and there by a cross-wall; pores numerous, 
small and bordered in the Peat: “half on both surfa aces, but some- 
what more numerous on the outer surface and here interrupted by 
hans oo and generally in rows on the commissures, towards 
the base of a leaf with pores in the pres. or lower cell-angles only. 
and have the leaves arranged uniformly ate d; the others are 
appressed to the stem. Branch-leaves very ‘siete oblong-ovate, up 
