58 THE SPHAGNACE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
Un. St. p. 11, n. 2 (1856). Berxet. Handb. Br. Moss. p. 306, t. 2, f 2 (1863). 
Hosxirk, Syn. Br. Moss. p. 23 (1873). 
Sph. condensatum, SCHLEICH. Pl. Crypt. Helv. cént. 2, n. 5 (1804). 
Sph. obtusifolium B. condensatum, Wes. Mou, Bot. Tasch. p. 73 (1807). ROHLING, 
Deutschl. Fl. iii. p. 35 (1813). 
Sph. helveticum, SCHKUHR, Deutsch. Moos. p. 12, t. 3 (1810). 
Sph, obtusifolium B, minus, Hook. Tayi. Musc. Br. p. 3 (1818). Gray, Nat. Arr. 
Brit. Plants, p. 710 (1821). 
Sph. premorsum, ZENKER, DieTR. Musc. Thuring. fasc. 1, n. 18 (1821). Brip. 
Bry. Univ. i. p. 17 (ut var. S. compacti). 
Sph. rigidum var. compactum, Scuimp. Torfm. p. 66 (1858); Synops. p. 678. 
Russow, Torfm. p. 77. MuiLpe, Bryol. Siles. p. 391. KiinccRAFF, l.c. BrartHw. 
Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 25. 
Hazs.—On drier heaths and moors. Frequent throughout Europe and N. 
America. Not uncommon in the south of England, as on the Sussex Downs, and on 
Oxshot Common, Surrey. 
This form of the species is much the commonest with us, and 
varies greatly in colour, being sometimes almost entirely rufous, 
brown; the fruit is also not unfrequent in some seasons. As is 
usually the case in the dense growing varieties of the Sphagua, the 
stem leaves have the hyaline cells frequently fibrose. 
Var. y. sguarrosum, Russow. 
Plants pale green, in loose tufts, 3-6 in. high. Branches more 
distant, spreading horizontally or decurved; their leaves loose and 
squarrose. Perichztial bracts shorter. 
Svnon.—Sph. strictum, Sutu. Muse. Allegh. n. 201 (1845). C. MULL. Synops. i. 
p. 104. 
Sph. humile, Scuimp. Sut. Musc. Bor.-Amer. n. 14; Mosses of Un. St. p. 11, 
n. 6 (1856). 
Sph. rigidum vax. sqguarrosum, Russow, Torfm. p. 77. MILDE, Bry. Siles. p. 391. 
Braltuw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 24. 
Has.—Shady parts of subalpine heaths. 
Europr.—Techelfer Woods, near Dorpat (Russow); Bunzlau (Limpricht) ; 
Weissenfels, in Thuringia (Schliephacke). gland: Langdale, Westmoreland 
(Barnes) ; Darnholm, Goathland, Yorkshire (Anderson). 
N. America.—Tallahassee, Florida (Regel) ; Look-out Mountains, Alabama 
(Lesquereux) ; Carolina (Sullivant). 
A very beautiful plant, of softer texture than the type, but 
connected with it by intermediate states which vary in the degree 
of squarrosity in the branch leaves. 
GROUP D.—CUSPIDATA. 
Plants rather rigid, loosely tufted. Branch leaves erecto-patent, 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, truncate and toothed at apex; 
margin more or less bordered, involute at point. 
