44 THE SPHAGNACE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
of the branches, beautiful yellow-green colour, and leptodermous 
capsules ; and it also often grows intermixed with other species. 
The name éenel/um was first applied to this species, we are in- 
‘ formed by Professor Lindberg, by Ehrhart, as indicated by a spe- 
cimen in the St. Petersburg herbarium, and the same species 
received the same name from Persoon, as proved by a specimen 
from him, preserved in Swartz’s herbarium, and a description 
is given by Bridel in his Mantissa Muscorum (1819); but the 
plant does not appear to have been well understood by the older 
authors, as small forms of various species appear under the name 
tenellum in their herbaria; that figured as tenellum in the Bryo- 
logia Germanica evidently belongs to Sph. acutifolium. Bridel also 
admits Sph. molluscum into the Bryol. Universa, but he only copied 
the description of Bruch without having seen the plant. 
Var. B. longifolium, Linvs. 
Plants shorter, more densely tufted, with crowded branches, and 
of a lurid or dingy green colour. Stem leaves longer, the hyaline 
cells fibrillose throughout. Branches more attenuated, with longer, 
narrower, and more pointed leaves. 
Synon.—Braituw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic, n. 12. 
Has.—Finland : Helsingfors (Lindberg). gland: Stansfield Moor, Tod- 
morden (Nowell, 1846) ; Carn Galva Moor, Plymouth (Curnow, 1861) ; Staveley, 
Westmoreland (Barnes, 1878). 
This has a different aspect from the typical state of the plant, 
owing to its colour being usually of a dirty white; it also appears 
to be much rarer than the ordinary plant. 
Var. y. fluitans, SCHIMP. 
Very long and slender, without any pendent branches, all the 
leaves remote; perichztia scattered throughout the stem, pseudo- 
podia very long. 
Synon.—Scuimp. Torfm. t. xii. f. 6, 7,8; Synops. Musc. p. 682. 
Sph. molluscum vax. B. immersum, Scuimp. Synops. Muse. ed. 2, p. 846 (1876). 
Has.—In stagnant water of the Marais des Ponts in the Swiss Jura (Lesquereux). 
6. Sphagnum laricinum, Spruce. 
Pu. VII. anp VIII. 
Dioicous, yellowish or pale brownish green; the stem with 
2-3 layers of cuticular cells. Stem leaves small, ovato-triangular, 
minutely fimbriate at apex. Branch leaves subsecund, recurved 
at point, ovate, pointed, 3-5 toothed at apex; hyaline cells with 
