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toothed; margin inflexed ; hyaline cells wide, reticulose fibred, with 
many unequal pores, the marginal narrow, in two rows, the outer- 
most having a longitudinal furrow at the edge; chlorophyllose 
cells enclosed by the hyaline, central, compressed ; leaves of the 
pendent branches elongated, narrower, more distant, and imbri- 
cated. 
Perichetia gemmiform, somewhat curved, not expanding; the 
bracts ovate and oblongo-lanceolate, subfalcate above; apex with 
two teeth, cells with fibres and minute pores as in the branch 
leaves. 
Capsule rather small, immersed, or moderately exserted. 
Spores ochraceous. 
Male inflorescence not amentaceous, but with the antheridia 
scattered on the pendent branches; not numerous, yellowish. 
+ Has.—Marshy heaths and moorlands, and wet mountain slopes. Generally 
distributed in Europe and North America, but not frequent. Fr. July. 
Rare in Lapland, but very fine and fertile, attaining a height of one foot or more 
(Lindberg). Near Arlary, Kinross, Scotland (Dr. Greville). Linwood Warren, 
Lincolnshire (F. A. Lees); Canford Heath, Poole, Dorset (Boswell). 
The tall highly-developed state of the plant is very wisely 
selected by Schimper to stand as the type of this species, and the 
name compactum retained for the short dense form more or less 
represented in every species of Sphagnum ; between the extreme 
states we have a gradual series of transition forms which imper- 
ceptibly connect one with the other. A remarkable peculiarity is 
presented by this species in its perichztial leaves, the areolation of 
which accords with that of the branch leaves, instead of with that 
of the stem leaves as is almost always the case. The fruit is rare 
with us, but Dr. Greville’s specimens from Arlary bear it in 
abundance. 
Var. B. compactum (DE Canp.), ScHIMP. 
Plants short, 1-3 in. high, in very dense cushioned tufts; 
branches densely crowded, erect, short, thick and compressed, 
their leaves rounded at apex. Colour pale rufescent, dirty white 
or pale green, variegated with rufous. Capsules immersed. 
Synon.—Sph. compactum, Dx Canp. Fl. Franc. ii. p. 443 (1805). Brup. Sp. 
Muse, p. 18 (1806); Mantis. p. 3 (1819); Bryol. Univ. i. p. 16 (1826). ScHwaAcr. 
Supp. I. pt. 1, p. 12, t. 3 (1811). Funcx, Moos-tasch. p. 4,t. 2 (1821). C. MULL. 
Synops. i. p. 98 (1849). Wits. Bryol. Brit. p. 18, t. 61 (1855). SULL. Mosses of 
