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Dioicous; male branches purple. Spores 24-28 » in diameter, 
reddish, finely punctulate. 
Hab. On moors, chiefly in the mountains, but not usually in 
very wet plac 
ee “Throughout Europe, up to 4600 ft. in the Riesenge- 
birge; Asia; N. America; 8. A 
This species is very distinct in the position of the chlorophyllose 
cells, and may generally be at once recognized from the other spe- 
cies of the section by the colour, which is, in sacnld cases, “distinctly 
red or purple. 
The varieties are based ee the colour :— 
(1) Var. albescens Warnst. in Bot. Gaz 0, 254 (ut var. leve 
f. albescens). Plants comuleiely gs Me white paige 
) Var. flavo-glaucescens Russ. apu arnst. in d. 
Naturf. Ges. in Danzig, N.F. Bd. ix. Heft 2, 1896, 164. enn 
yellowish, at ties blue- cama pale below. 
3) Var. fuscescens Warnst. in Bot. Gaz. 1890, 254 (ut var. lave 
f. fuscescens). Plants versie or less brown above, whitish or violet- 
brown below. 
ar. glaucescens Russ. apud Warnst. in Schrift. d. Naturf. 
s. in Dan N.F. Bd. ix. Heft 2, 1896, 164. Blue-green 
throughout the ‘whole nd ae part, ‘sea below or at times mixed 
with some brown; red quite abse 
5) Var . glauco- yaeerhatite Russ. 7.c. More or less red in the 
capitulum (at times passing over inks a dirty brownish-red), some- 
times green, whitish or more or less brown 
6) Var. obscurum Warnst. Europ. Torfm. No. 23, 1888. In 
upper part a dark dirty ieowsteh: -green, in the middle pale reddish, 
paler below. 
Brookwood, Surrey (Sherrin). : 
(7) Var. purpurascens Warnst. in Flora, 1884. Red predomi- 
nating in the entire tuft, which in the capitulum and in the lower 
part frequently asin over into a brownish red; green and yellow 
almost entirely abse 
Jura (wing) ; Leelee Moss, Dumfries (B. é H. Hamilton) ; 
Creag Mhor, Glen Lochay, Perthshire (Cocks); near Coleman’s 
Hatch, Ashdown Forest, Sussex (Nicholson). 
(8) Var. roseo-pallescens Warnst. Tufts a mixture of rose-red 
and almost white 
Chartley Moss (Bagnall); Cockerham Moss, W. Lanes. (Wheldon 
& aang Wolf fhole Crag, W. Lanes. (Wilson) ; Middle Hill, Killin 
ks). 
Coe 
“a (9) Var. roseum Warnst. Europ. Torfm. No. 19, 1888. The 
capitulum and upper part a pale rose- or flesh-colour mixed with a 
little green. 
Widdy Bank Fell, Teesdale, Durham (Horrel/); Ulpha Moss, 
Westmorslsed (Ley); ’Whixall me See ey); Keston Common, 
Kent (Horrell); White Moss, Hin 4 Lanes. (Wheldon ¢ 
s. (Wheldon € Wilson); Tarn ook 
Fell, W. Lanes. — oy Wilson) Allt Dhubh Ghalair, ‘Glen 
Lochay, Perthshire (Cocks 
