48 THE SPHAGNACE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
Finland specimens, however, distinctly show the transition between 
it and the var. Alatyphyllum, while the structure of the stem and 
leaves agrees perfectly with that of the other forms, and thus con- 
firms the accuracy of Professor Lindberg’s diagnosis. Milde’s 
plant is doubtfully referred here by Lindberg, and it is very desirable 
that original specimens should be examined, as Mr. Boswell sends 
me a form of Sph. subsecundum, which is almost equally free from 
branches ; this may possibly be a seedling condition, growing with 
closely aggregated stems, and identical with Milde’s specimen. 
7. Sphagnum subsecundum, Nexss, v. Esens. 
PL. IX. anp X. 
Dioicous, dull green, olivaceous or rufescent; the stem dark 
brown, with a single layer of cuticular cells. Stem leaves small, 
broadly ovate, very minutely fimbriate at apex. Branch leaves 
more or less subsecund, broadly acuminato-elliptic, 3-5 toothed at 
apex; hyaline cells very small, with numerous minute pores at 
margins; chlorophyllose cells central, enclosed by the hyaline, 
compressed. Perichzetial bracts oblong, acutely pointed. 
Synon.— Sph. subsecundum, NEES, in STURM’s Deutschl. Fl. Crypt. fasc. 17 (1819). 
Funck, Moos-Taschenherb. p. 4, t. 2 (1821). NerEs et Hornscu. Bryol. Germ. i. p. 
17, t. 3, £. 7 (1823). Brip. Bryol. Univ. i. p. 8 (1826). Hiren. Musc. Germ. p. 26 
(1833). C. MbLL. Synops. i. p. 100 (1849). Scuimp. Torfm. p. 74, t. 22 (1858) ; 
Synops. p. 682 (1860), et ed. 2, p. 843 (1876). Linps. in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 
xix. p. 141, n. 11 (1862). Hart. Skand. FI. ed. 9, ii. p. 82 (1864). Russow, 
Torfm. p. 71 (1865). SCHLIEPH. in Verh. Z. B. Gesel. Wien, 1865, p. 406. FI. 
Danica, t. 2754, excl. f. 6 et v. (1867). K1iNcc. in Schr. der K. Phys. Cék. Gesel. 
zu Konigs. 1872, p. 8. Muzpz, Bryol. Siles. p. 392 (1869). Brarruw. Sphag. Brit. 
Exsic. n. 15 (1877). Hox. Syn. Br. Moss. p. 25 (1873). 
Sph. contortum var. B. subsecundum, Wits. Bry. Brit. p. 22, t. lx. (1855). 
Dioicous ; tall, slender, in soft tufts of various colours, glaucous 
green, yellowish green, brownish or ochraceous. Stem solid, brown 
or blackish, somewhat glossy, with a single thin layer of cuticular 
cells without pores; those of the peripheral layers deep brown. 
Stem leaves small, from a broad base, broadly ovate, minutely 
auricled, cucullate at apex, but finally flattened, and very minutely 
fringed ; bordered by four rows of extremely narrow cells; upper 
hyaline cells broader, densely fibrose and porose, the lower longer 
and narrower without fibres and pores, or sometimes furnished with 
them to the base. 
Ramuli about four in a fascicle, 2-3 arcuato-patulous, 1-2 
