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This form is regarded by Lindberg as a young or imperfectly 
developed state of Spx. sguarrosum, and has never been found in 
fruit. It is generally of a more dingy green colour.. 
Var. y. imbricatum, SCHIMP. 
Plants robust. Branch leaves imbricated throughout their 
length, or with the apex only recurved. 
Synon.—Scuimp. Synops. ed. 2, p. 836 (1876). 
Has.—Near Gefle, Sweden (C. Hartman). 
This variety I only know by the brief description given in Schimper’s Synopsis. 
Var. §. daxum, BraiTuw. 
Plants loosely tufted, pale whitish green, soft, 6-10 in. high. 
Stems slender, fragile; the leaves short, broad, quadrate, laxly 
areolate, deeply fimbriate at the truncate apex; the sides with a 
border of narrow cells, which is widest at base. Branches in 
distant fascicles, dependent, very long, attenuated ; the leaves laxly 
incumbent, divergent, not squarrose, or only slightly recurved at 
points, broadly ovate, acute. 
Synon.— Sh. jfimbriatum vax. robustum, BRaiTHW. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 44 
(1877). 
Has.—In ditches in the old alum works at Eskdale, near Whitby, Yorkshire 
(Anderson). 
This form is very peculiar, from its soft texture, straight leaves, 
and long pendent branches, which with the broad fimbriate stem 
leaves appear to connect it directly with Sph. fimbriatum. 
The plants are generally stained of an ochraceous or rusty 
colour in the lower part, by the iron set free from the roasted alum 
rock, 
Var. e. subteres, LINDB. 
Plants very slender, elongated, 5-10 in. high, bright green. 
Branches elongated, slender; the leaves imbricated, with the upper 
half recurved and attenuated toward apex. 
Syvnon.—BralTHw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 28. 
Has.—Subalpine bogs. Not common. 
Evuropr.—Finland (Lindberg). Skeggles, Westmoreland (Barnes) ; Saltersgate 
Moor, Yorkshire (Anderson). 
A very pretty variety, having much greater resemblance to 
Sph. intermedium than to Sph. sguarrosum, the stem leaves are, 
however, quite normal. 
