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fibres, and chlorophyllose ; in the upper half papillose and fibrose 
with foramina on both sides, as are also the marginal nearly to 
base. 
Capsule subglobose, brown ; spores ferruginous. 
Male plants in distinct tufts, resembling the female; amentula 
apical on divergent branches, ochraceous or brownish ; bracts round, 
cochleari-concave, with the structure like that of the branch leaves ; 
the barren branches of the coma few and short, as compared with 
those of Sph. cymbifolium. 
Has.—The smaller peat-bogs in subalpine districts, and especially in drains and 
cuttings filled with water. Fr. July. ; 
Evropr.—Finland : First found at Helsingfors by Lindberg, and since in various 
other places and in the islands of Hogland and Aland. Sweden, Norway: Dovrefjeld, 
Christiania, érc. (Blytt). Germany, Westphalia, &c. England: Darnholm, Goathland, 
Yorkshire (Braithwaite) ; Penzance (Curnow) ; Barrowfield, intermixed with SpA. 
cymbifolium, and Witherslack Moss, Westmoreland, in fine fruit (Barnes). Scotland: 
Ben Lawers, Perthshire; moors near Loch Achilty, Ross, and near Garynahine, Isl. 
Lewis, Hebrides (Braithwaite) ; Dalfroo and Dalbrake bogs, Strachan, Kincardine, 
and Reawick, Shetland (Sim). Jveand: Killarney, Brandon Mountains, &c. (Moore, 
Lindberg). 
N. America.—Has been found mixed with Sph. cymbifolium. 
This elegant species has, no doubt, been always mistaken for 
Sph. cymbifolium, but in the growing state it has quite a different 
aspect, being a coarser and more rigid plant, and when removed 
from the water the branches retain their position and do not fall 
down and collapse against the stem, and they are much shorter 
and less attenuated at points. 
The plants are generally more or less tinged with ochraceous, 
and this tint is most conspicuous on the apices of the branch leaves, 
showing much more affinity to Sph. Austint than to Sph. cymér- 
folium. The papille which cover the internal walls of the 
combined hyaline and chlorophyllose cells are somewhat variable 
in distinctness, but with a good illumination are seen to differ in 
size and to be in form of a low obtusely-pointed cone. Professor 
Schimper strangely regards these characters as of small impor- 
tance, and not sufficient to constitute a species. 
Var. B. confertum, LINDB. 
Plants much smaller, dense, frequently dichotomous. Branch 
leaves round, deeply cochleari-concave and obtuse. Bracts of peri- 
chzetium shorter. 
