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lanceolate acuminate, roadly margined.—Runs into the var. plumosum. 
—In an inundated peat bog in Bergen Co., there occurs a slender pale- 
Var. Recurvum. (S. recurvum Beauv.).—Densely cespitose, robust ; 
color pale straw-yellow; stems erect, 5 or 6 inches high; branches in fours 
and fives, the 2 spreading ones very uniformly recurved, the 2 or 3 deflexed 
ones closely appressed; branch-leaves small, oblong-lanceolate, strongly 
recurved and conspicuously arranged in 5 straight ranks. Pericheth 
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ie Torrryanum. S. Torreyanum Sull., in Memoirs Amer. Acad. 
"8 and Sciences, new series, iv, p. 174).—This fine variety (it appears 
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’ species, between which there are all manner of inter- 
mediate forms.—Deep water about Manchester—Probably does not fruit 
&Xeept when it occurs in water holes that are partially exsiccated during 
the late summer and early fall months. ; 
Var. taxirouus. (S. laxifolium C. Mill. Synop. 1, p. 97).—Nearly 
as large as the last and resembling it except in color, which is — 
stem and perichetal leaves fibrillose except the margins below, the latter 
loosely Spreading ; commonly sterile, but I have a number of fine fruiting 
— from partially exsiecated water holes, in low sandy woods in 
'gen Co., where this variety is common 
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