492, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
THE EUROPEAN SPHAGNACEA 
(arreR WaRNsToRF) 
By E. Cuartes Horretz, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 392.) 
§ va. Spuaena cymBrroiia Schimp. 
Branch-leaves of medium size to large, iersabs or roundish- to 
oblong-obovate, boat-shaped, with small teeth on the scarcely 
bordered lateral margins; apex wide, oud aad cucullate, 
never toothed, frequently with a hyaline border; the margin 
Siege widely inrolled at the apex and for some distance down 
e leaf; when dry never undulate, and frequently with a slight 
narrowly isosceles-triangular or narrowly rectangular to barrel- 
shaped, generally free on the inner surface of the leaf, more rarely 
free on both surfaces of the leaf or completely enclosed by the 
hyaline cells; hyaline cells, on the inner wall where united to the 
chlorophyllose cells smooth, papillose, with so-called comb-fibrils 
with 2-3 lon ngitudinal and almost parallel fibrils ; pore- -formation 
branches not forming retort-cells, sie ss in the pendent 
branches, always with fibrils and p Stem-leaves sometimes 
ah small, sometimes large, soinotimen very large, in most cases 
upper part; non- -fibrillose or with fibrils more or less eee 
his very atti section comprises about forty-two species, of 
which all the seven European species are found in this ee 
ost of the members of this group are at once recogniz 
belonging to the section = their robust size, and by the mene 
poe of the branch-leayes 
ag Serre (Harsh) Russ. Beitr. zur Kenntn. der 
tortie: 1865, 
Syn. S. fii Sulliv. apud eyil — Appal. 1870, 3. 
8. afine Ren. & Card. in Rey. Bryol. 1 
Exsice. Braithwaite, Sphagn. Brit, Tadlas Nos. 1 & 2 (1877). 
Plants in looser or more compact tufts, 7-15 em. high, light to 
rather dark green, grey-green, yellowish, brown to deep brown ; 
generally more delicate than the other European species of the 
