254 C. F.. Austin on the Sphagna of New Jersey. 
Spy. crcLopny.ivm, Sull. & Lesqx.—Foliis perichetalibus ut ezeteris 
casulam globosam includentibus.—Apparently a very distinct species; 
stem and branch-leaves much larger than in any other, often 2 lines or 
more broad by 23-3 lines Jong, “with a clasping-perfoliate, om 
distinctly heart-shaped base. —Grassy bogs about Manchester. 
seen dwarf for ms of this species from Quaker Bridge distributed as “ ‘S. 
“sera de 
tinct from S. sedoides——Color blackish-green ; stems 6 inches long w 
few short recurved-spreading branches. Runs into a large rear 
form in the water vith stems 1-2 feet _ 
Spx. rterpum, Schimp., var. nu (8. humile Schimp.)—Stems 
low, 1 inch high, very compact; aati nearly included.—Dry margin 
of the pone - “Manchester. 
ssecunpum, Nees & Hornsch.—Rather loosely cespitose, 
8-5 inches higts color above, a beautiful golden-brown, below, whitish; 
branches in fours and fives, somewhat crowded, thickish towards the base, 
somewhat attenuated, more or less contorted and of unequal lengths; 
branch-leaves ovate, acuminate, unequally truncate and about 5-toothed 
at the apex, varying from closely imbricated to spreading, mostly recurved, 
me are much so, while others on the same branch are straight or even 
—8s0 
slightly incurved ; cells of leaves larger than in any os that I have 
seen from other localities,—with numerous small es.— Meadows and 
pastures in springy laces ; sterile—A form vere re sunken holes ia 
woods partly ‘inundated, is of a pale green color; stems 6-8 inches longs 
i ichzeth lateral. 
At a casual gates rye might be mistaken for either S. cymbifolium or 
- acutifolium, but particularly for S. ¢ cuspidatum ; but it is at once dis 
tinguished from the first, with which it grows, by its smaller size and acute 
ranch- leaves; from the second by its thickish branches with t 
distinguish it when fresh, but in a dry state this is readily done, for 1 
then has the leaves straight (not wavy) on the margin ; male oe very 
different from the fem ale, , as wees 
with yellow; branches very shoe and thick, ovate-lanceolate, very na 
nearly straight, the deflexed ones are clo osely appressed beyond, but oe 
at, the tumid base; branch-leaves large, orbicular-ovate, rounded at 
5-12 toothed apex, very compactly imbricated,—the cells mostly without 
pores.—Very difficult to distinguish from small forms of Sph. cy” an 
erat var, a, with which it grows. Bogs and wet meadows: a 
. Spx. mouiuscum, Bruch.—Was found mixed with small forms oa 
Soh cuspidatum from about Manchester, and detected by its ellipt pee 
never cuspidate nor recurved, branch-leaves, which are not wavy oa 
margin when dry; those towards the apex of the branches are sma " 
than the rest, but of the same outline (not narrowed as in most § wd 
mbles S. — one but is a more slender plant, with cross-see 
tion of leaf as atu pust 
9. Spx. penser ee sergeen ae loosely cespitose ; large and 10 
