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the base. Branch leaves longer, oblong-lanceolate. Perichzetial 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, the apex with 4-5 irregular teeth, 
hyaline cells fibrose. 
Synon.— Sh. molluscoides, C. MULL. Synops. i. p. 99 (1849). 
Sph, Miilleri, Scuimp. Torfm. p. 73, t. 26 (1858); Synops. p. 686 (1860), et 
ed. 2, p. 841 (1876). Linps. in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xix. p. r4o, n. 9 (1862). 
SULLIV. Ic. Muse. p. 9, t. 5 (1864). Russow, Beitr. zur Kennt. Torfm. p. 78 (1865). 
SCHLIEPH. in Verh. Z. B. Gesel. Wien, 1865, p. 403. 
Sph. molle, Linps. in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Férh. xx. p. 414 (1863). MutpE, Bryol. 
Siles. p. 391 (1869). Braituw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 21 (1877). 
Has.—By moorland streams, forming small dense hassocks. Fr. August. 
Europe.—Near Jever, in Oldenburg, and at Detmold (C. Miter); Estrup, in 
Jylland, Denmark (Lange, 1853); Hofmansgave, in Fuen (Hofman-Bang, 1861) ; 
H66r, in Scania (Berggren) ; Mt. Hunneberg, in Westergothland (Lindberg) ; Silesia ; 
Holland ; heaths near Dellbriick and Hoxter, in Westphalia; Aurich, in Friesland ; 
near Baireuth (Arnold). gland: Darnholm, Goathland, Yorkshire (Anderson, 
1853); Brickhill Heath, Bucks (Rev. J. F. Crouch); Rowdsey Moss, Ulverston, 
Lancashire (Miss Hodgson). Scotland: Ben Lawers (MacKinlay) ; about Strachan 
and Banchory (Sim). Shedland: At N. Maven and in Unst (Sim). 
N. AmErica.—Mobile (Sullivant). 
This plant is probably not uncommon with us, but has doubtless 
been passed over as a form of Séh. acutifolium, from which it may 
be at once distinguished by its large fibrose stem leaves, which 
want the wide border of narrow cells, so well marked in that 
species ; but the barren specimens in some copies of my Exsiccata 
are truly Sph. acutifolium. 
Var. y. tenerum (SuLL. Lzsq.), BRAITHW. 
Stems 1-2 in. high, densely czspitose, of a dirty white or 
yellowish colour. Branches closely crowded, erecto-patent, their 
leaves acuminate, somewhat undulate at margin. Perichztial 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, broadly bordered above, fibrillose 
in the middle, irregularly 4-5 toothed at apex. 
Synon.— SpA. acutifolium var. ? SULL. Musc. Allegh. n. 203 (1845). 
Sph. tenerum, SULL. LEsQ. Musc. Bor.-Amer. n. 11 ; Mosses of Un. St. p. 11, n. 5. 
Sph. tabulare, Suu. Lesg. Musc. Bor.-Amer. n. 15 (1856) ; Mosses of Un. St. 
p- 12, n. 13 (1856). 
Sph. molle var. arctum, BRAITHW. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 21*c. 
Has.—In drier places among decayed peat. 
N. America.—Table Mountain, N. Carolina; Mobile, Alabama. 
Europe.—£ngland: Darnholm, Goathland, Yorkshire (Braithwaite). Scot/and ; 
Dalfroo Bog, Strachan, Kincardine, in fine fruit, growing with Sp. rigidum var. 
compactum (Sim, Aug. 1878). 
