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branch leaves have very minute papillze on the internal wall of the 
hyaline cells, where united to the chlorophyllose. 
12. Sphagnum fimbriatum, Wizson. 
Pi. XVI. 
Monoicous; slender, pale whitish green ; cuticular cells of stem 
in 2-3 strata. Stem leaves large, broadly obovate-spathulate ; the 
margin in the rounded upper half laciniate-fimbriate ; border of 
narrow cells one-third the width of leaf at base, disappearing half- 
way up the leaf. Branch leaves ovato-lanceolate, the chlorophyllose 
cells compressed, enclosed, but nearest upper surface of leaf. 
Perichztial bracts obovate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate. Male 
amentula fusiform. 
Synon.—Sph. fimbriatum, Wits. in Hoox. Fl. Antarct. ii. p. 398 (1847) ; Bryol. 
Brit. p. 21, t. 60 (1855). SULL. Mosses of Un. St. p. 12, n. 12 (1856). ScHimp. 
Torfm. p. 59, t. 15 (1858) ; Synops. p. 674 (1860), et ed. 2, p. 829 (1876). Linps. in 
Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xix. p. 137,n. 4(1862). Hart. Skand. Flora. BERKEL. Handb. 
Br. Moss. p. 307 (1863). Russow, Beitr. Torfm. p. 51 (1865). SCHLIEPH. in Verh. 
Z. B. Gesel. Wien, 1865, p. 391. KLINGG. in Schr. der K. Phys. Gtk. Gesel. zu 
Konigs. 1872, p. 4.. MILDE, Bryol. Siles. p. 386 (1869). osx. Synops. Br. Moss. 
p. 24 (1873). Bratruw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 43 (1877). 
Sph. acutifolium, p. p. Hoox. Tayi. C. MULL. &c. 
Sph. capillifolium, Dozy, Motx. Fl. Batav. p. 78 (1851). 
Monoicous ; in loose, pale whitish-green or glaucous-green tufts. 
Stem very slender, 6-14 in. long, pale green, with 2-3 layers of 
rectangular, porose, cuticular cells, those of the peripheral layers not 
coloured. Stem leaves large, erect, broadly obovate or obovato- 
spathulate, the margin in the rounded upper half laciniate-fimbriate ; 
hyaline cells of the middle and upper part rhombic, with one 
or more partitions, and without fibres or pores; chlorophyllose 
cells long, linear, forming a border which occupies one-third the 
width of base, but rapidly narrows and disappears half-way up the 
margin. 
Ramuli 3-4 in a fascicle, very long, attenuated, two arcuate, 
decurved, the others pendulous, filiform. Lower ramuline leaves 
broadly ovato-lanceolate, upper elongate, lanceolate, acute, with a 
narrow border ; hyaline cells with annular and spiral fibres, and a 
row of large pores on each side; chlorophyllose cells compressed, 
enclosed by the hyaline, but nearest the upper surface of leaf. 
Capsules at first immersed in the large imbricated perichztium, 
afterwards becoming moderately exserted ; lower bracts obovate- 
