50 THE SPHAGNACEZ OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
somewhat glossy, the chlorophyllose cells less compressed, the 
apex with five or six larger teeth. 
Synon.—Sph. contortum, SCHULTZ, Suppl. FI. Starg. p. 64 (1819). Nerxs, Hscu. 
Sr. Bry. Germ. i. p. 15, t. 2, f. 6 (1823). Brip. Bry. Un. i. p.7 (1826). Wits. Bry. 
Br. p. 22, pl. 60 (1855). Sui. Moss. Un. St. p. 11, n. 3 (1856). BERKEL. Handb. 
p- 308 (1863). Kurnec. in Schr. der K. Phys. Ek. Gesel. zu Kénigs. 1872, p. 8. 
Sph. Lescurii, SuLL. Musc. Bor-Amer. n. 6 (1856); Mosses of Un. St. p. 11, n. 4+ 
Sph. subsecundum vax. contortum, Scuimp. Torfm. p. 75, t. xxii. 8 et xxiii. B; 
Synops. p. 683, et ed. 2, p. 844. MILpg, Bry. Siles. p. 393. Brairuw. Sphag. Brit. 
Exsic. n. 16, 17. : 
Sph. latifolium var. B. fluitans, TuRN. Muse. Hibern. p. 5 (1804). 
Sph. subsecundum vax. rufescens, N. H. St. Bry. Germ. i. p. 16, t. 2, f.6*. Bruip. 
Bry. Un. i. p. 8. HtsBen. Musc. Germ. p. 26. 
Sph. subsecundum vax. tsophyllum, Russow, Torf. p. 73, p. p. 
Has.—Ditches in peat-bogs and at margin of pools; frequent throughout 
Europe and N. America. 
This variety is perhaps the most polymorphous of all the 
_ Sphagna, and in some form or other may generally be met with. 
Occasionally it is very large, and presents an intermediate stage to 
the var. odesum; in others the branches are not contorted or but 
slightly so in those of the capitulum, or they may be short, ascending, 
and of equal length throughout. 
Mr. Boswell sends a curious form, which he found floating in a 
spring on Mitcheldean Meend, Gloucester: in this the upper branches 
are abbreviated, and the rufescent leaves clustered upon them into 
arosette shape. Another, collected by Rev. Aug. Ley, at Trelleck 
Bog, Monmouth, has the stems quite simple or with a few solitary 
branches, and very long lax leaves: this he regards as probably the 
var. simplicissimum, MILDE. 
Var. y. auviculatum (Scuimp.), LInps. 
Plants glaucous green above, pale below ; the stems pale brown 
or green. Cauline leaves large, lingulate-acuminate, subhastate at 
base, with large auricles composed of large fibrose utricular cells, 
free and perforated at the apex. 
Sph. auriculatum, Scuimp. Torfim. p. 77, t. xxiv. (1858) ; Synops. p. 687 (1860), 
et ed. 2, p. 844 (1876). 
Sph. cymbifolium vax. y. tenellum, Hart. Skand. FI. ed. 7, p. 398 (1858). 
Sph. subsecundum vax. auriculatum, Linps. in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xix. p. 141 
(1862), in obs. sub. n. rz. ScHLIEP. in Verh. Z. B. Gesel. Wien, 1865, p. 411. 
Brattuw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 19, 20. : 
Hazs.—At the margins of pools on heaths. 
Europe.—Lngland: Hayward’s Heath, Sussex (Mitten) ; Sutton Park, Birming- 
ham (Bagnall); Witherslack Moss, Westmoreland (Barnes); Lindow Common, 
