THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACE® 891 
to 4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, toothed on the widely truncate 
apex, margin little or not. . all inrolled, ponies narrow. Hyaline 
cells with numerous fibrils, on the inner surface in the upper half 
with small scattered pores in eg cell-angles ony, in the oH ti ua 
much umerous and in part arranged in 
missures; on the outer surface towards the ane almost pea 
without pores, only in the middle of the leaf towards the lateral 
margins with scattered small true pores, hich are nagar 
immediately opposite pores on the inner surface, or also wit 
numerous pseudopor 
Chlorophyllose cells in section rectangular to barrel-shaped or 
also, in part, trapezoid and then with the longer parallel side on the 
outer surface; wall generally equally thickened all round, free on 
both surfaces, hyaline cells convex on both sides. 
Hab. Moorland pools 
Distrib. Russia ; Germany. 
42. 8. oszsum Warnst. in Bot. Gaz. xv. 1890, 247. 
Syn. 8S. subsecundum var. turgidum C. Mull. Syn. i. 1849, 101 ? 
S. contortum var. obesum Wils. Bryol. Brit. 1855, 22. S. subsecundum 
var. obesum Schimp, Syn. ed. ii. 187 
wee Braithw Goan Brit. Exsiee. 1877, No. 206 (sub 
aa, ae ido var. auriculato forma imn 
ie st always pe hs submerged or lating with frequently 
a ssliitens habit. Very robust and turgid, resembling large aquatic 
forms of S. rufescens. Proquantif dark eee ies frequently green, 
or variegate 
Wood- cylinder generally dark brown. 
Stem-cortex in a single la brill 
Stem-leaves large to very large, lingulate, generally fibrillose 
throughout and with few 
Fascicles of 2-8 re ig all of which are cea vd spreading 
and similar, very robust and swollen from the very large leaves. 
Branch- lsiees large, oval- oblong: with very few pores on each .. 
face, or almost entirely non-porose; frequently a the hyaline 
sometimes the pores are more numerous on the outer i but 
are then in the cell-angles only, and not in rows on the com- 
issures. 
on cells in section rectangular, median and free on 
both surfac a ' 
r an ools 
5 Hat Submerged id mene eg ee oa Lindon Common, 
Mobberley, Cheshire (W. hiteheddl), 
43. 8. Pynarer Brid. Bryol. Univ. i. 1826, 749. 
yn. 8S. sedoides Brid. 1 
Tufts loose, above backish b brown, brown below. 
Wood- -cylinder dar 
raat -cortex in 1-2 as ers 
aves large, yer very coneave, resembling the branch- 
leaves in Soar _and anatomical structure, generally entirely without: 
