C. F. Austin on the Sphagna of New Jersey. . 258 
purple in drying. A cinerous-green, rather loosely spreading, sterile form 
is found in miry swamps. ; 
- Spx. Sutiivanrianum (sp. noy.): Speciosum robustum submersum 
vel fluitans: caulis pedalis et ultra firmus simplex 1 semel divisus, 
strato corticali triplici et quadruplici e cellulis hyalinis spirali-fibrillosis 
hyalinis fibrillosis et poris majusculis instructis, cellulis chlorophyllosis ad 
Concavam folii faciem_positis inque sectione transversali triangularibus: 
fructus et flores ignoti—Manchester Pond, Ocean Co., New Jersey; col- 
lected October, 1862. 
e species has the appearance of an overgrown state of Sph, 
oliu 
characters of that spe ‘ies, but is a | 
branches with eleganily fringed leaves which are very abruptly contracted 
0 mto a claw-like base, and have the back at the apex conspicuously 
dark-colored, with cross-section as in S. acutifolium. The stem-leaves are 
SO quite distinct, being usually nearly quadrate, but little if any longer 
than broad, and copiously f inged. “ : 
SPH. cymprrouium, Dill—Allt he specimens that I have examined, 
both from this country and Europe, have the stem-leaves reticulated on 
short, distant, erect-appressed, somewhat club-shaped, with the apex 
slightly recurved, The following are the forms that I have observed in 
New Jersey, precisely the same as are found in Europ: 
] 
Swamps; fruits occasionally ; runs into 
8. More robust, rather loosely cespitose, mostly of a pale — 
e low 
tather distant, the upper crowded ; ves with the cells usually des- 
te of pores and spiral fibres; branch-leaves slightly recurved abo 
: ocladum ©. Mill. 2) of 
y. os 
‘anches less crowded above,—the leaves acuminate, the upper half some- 
What tubular and recurved-squarrulose squarrulosum C. Mill. Synop. 
ry swamps part 
