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11. Sphagnum squarrosum, PErRsoon. 
Pi. XIV. 
Monoicous or dioicous; green, the stem reddish, with two 
strata of cuticular cells. Stem leaves lingulate, not bordered ; the 
apex rounded and slightly fimbriate. Branch leaves squarrose, 
broadly ovate below, suddenly lanceolate; the apex minutely 3-4 
toothed; bordered with very narrow cells; chlorophyllose cells 
compressed, enclosed by the hyaline. Perichzetial bracts obovate, 
emarginate. 
Synon.—.Sph. sguarrosum, Pers. Mss. Crome, Samml. Deutsch. Laubm. i. 
“p. 24, n. 3 (1803). Wes. Mone, Naturh. Reise durch Schweden, p. 29, t. 2, f.1 a 
et b (1804), et Bot. Tasch. p. 73 (1807). Smitu, Eng. Bot. t. 1498 (1804). P. DE 
Beauv. Prodr. p. 88 (1805). La Marck et Cann. Fl. Franc. i. p. 443 (1805). 
ScHuLtz, Fl. Stargard. p. 276 (1806). Brip. Sp. Musc. i. p. 14 (1806) ; Mantissa, 
p. 2 (1819), et Bry. Univ. i. p. 5 (1826). Rout. Ann. Wetter. Gesells. i. p. 197 
(1809), et Deutschl. Fl. iii, p. 36 (1813). ScuKuHR, Deutschl. Moose, p. 14, t. 6 
(1810). Fl. Danica, t. 1415 (1810), ScuwAcr. Suppl. I. pt. 1, p. 13, t. 4 (1811). 
Voir, Musc. Herbip. p. 12 (1812). Hoox. Tayi. Musc. Brit. p. 4, t. 4 (1818). 
Funcx, Taschenh. t. 2 (1821). Gray, Nat. Arr. Br. Pl. i. p. 710, 2 (1821). ZENK. 
Dieter. Musc. Thuring. n. 21 (1821). Nexs, Hscu. Sr. Bry. Germ. i. p. 9, t. 1, f. 3 
(1823). Hdpen. Musc. Germ. p. 23 (1833). Dz Nor. Syll. Musc. Ital. p. 295 (1838). 
C. MOLL. Synops. i. p. 94 (1849). WILs. Bry. Brit. p. 23, t. 4 (1855). Harr. Skand. 
Fl. ed. 6, p. 435 (1854). Suit. Mosses of Un. St. p. 12, n. 9 (1856). ScHimp. 
Torfm. p. 63, t. 22 (1858). Synops. p. 677 (1860), et ed. 2, p. 835 (1876). Linps. 
in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Férh. xix. p. 139, n- 7 (1862). BERKEL. Handb. Br. Mosses, 
p- 308, t. 2, f. 4 (1863). Russ. Torfm. p. 62 (1865). ScHLIEPH. in Verh. Z. B. 
Gesel. Wien, 1865, p. 400. Kurnoc. in Schr. der K. Phys. Gtk. Gesel. zu Konigs. 
1872, p. 7. Muxps, Bryol. Siles. p. 387 (1869). Hosx. Synops. p. 26 (1873). 
BraitTHw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 26 (1877). 
Sph. Aconiense, DE Not. Mss. 
Sph. patulum, MiTTEN, Mss. 
Sph. oblongum, P. Beauv. Prodr. p. 15. Brrp. Bryol. Univ. i. p. 6. 
Sph. crassisetum, BRIDEL, Mantis. Musc. p. 2, et Sp. Musc. i. p. 15. 
Monoicous, or sometimes dioicous; in loose, deep glaucous- 
green tufts. Stems robust, decumbent at base, 6-15 in. high, 
generally dichotomous, rigid, reddish brown; cuticular cells small, 
non-porose, in two strata; the peripheral cells incrassate, rufous 
brown. Stem leaves large, lingulate, very narrowly bordered, 
minutely auricled at base; apex rounded, slightly fimbriate ; hyaline 
cells elongated, hexagono-rhomboid below, rhombic above, without 
fibres or pores, but here and there with a transverse partition. 
Ramuli 4-5 in a fascicle, of which 2-3 are divergent, tumid, 
attenuated toward the points, with the leaves on the lower two- 
