34 THE SPHAGNACE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
short, slender, appressed to stem ; cuticular cells quadrato-hex- 
agonal, fibrose, and porose. 
Leaves of divergent branches closely imbricated, ovate-oblong, 
concave ; the margin inflexed and cucullate at apex, which is more 
deeply coloured, less obtusely rounded, strongly squamoso-scabrous 
at back. Cells large, flexuose, the hyaline filled with fibres and 
having several large foramina; the chlorophyllose obtusely tri- 
gonous, projecting between the hyaline on the concave surface of 
leaf; the internal wall of the hyaline cells, where united to the 
chlorophyllose, densely crested with prominent transverse, linear, 
parallel papillee. 
Perichztia few, placed in the coma; bracts large, oblong, con- 
volute, minutely fimbriate at the rounded apex ; cells of the lower 
third empty, narrow, parenchymatous, above normal, more or less 
fibrose, with large pores, the internal walls transversely striato- 
papillose. Capsule moderately exserted, dark brown. Spores 
ferruginous. Male inflorescence amentiform, on the subinflated 
apex of the branches of the coma. 
Has.—Wet mountain heaths and peat-bogs, especially near the sea-coast. 
Evurore.— Sweden: Hunneberg Mountain, Westrogothia (Lindberg, 1859) ; 
Ostanfalla, Nerike (Zetterstedt, 1860), aud at Villingsberg with fruit (C. Hartman, 
1875); below Skaralid, Riseberga, Skane (Lindberg, 1875). England: Lyth Moss, 
Westmoreland (Barnes, 1876). 
N. AMERIcA.—Near Farrago and Manchester, Ocean County, New Jersey, with 
fruit (Austin, 1862). 
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In Sph. Austint the papillz or crest-like elevations on the 
internal lateral walls of the hyaline cells are transversely linear, 
and when well developed give a pectinate appearance to the 
chlorophyllose cells ; but in the Westmoreland plant these are less 
distinct than usual, and it might thus be confounded with Sp. papit- 
losum, from which, however, it may be known by a thin transverse 
section of a branch leaf, in which it will be seen that the chloro- 
phyllose cells emerge at the ventral surface of the leaf, instead of 
being enclosed on both sides by the hyaline. Though resembling 
Sph. papillosum much in habit and colour, it is altogether of softer 
texture. 
Var. B. imbricatum (Hornscu.), Linps. 
Colour darker brown, growing in very dense tufts. Plants very 
tumid from the crowded fascicles of branches, which are short, 
tapering at points, with closely imbricated leaves. 
