74 THE SPHAGNACE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
attenuated suddenly into a narrow minutely-toothed point, free 
from fibres. 
Svnon.— SpA. acutifolium vax. 8. luridum, HUEBEN. Musc. Germ. p. 28. BRAITHW. 
Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 4o. 
Hazs.—Deep peat-bogs. 
Europe.—Barmbeck, near Hamburg (Huebener). Ben Lawers, Perthshire (Braith- 
waite) ; Darnholm, Goathland, Yorkshire (Rev. Mr. Crouch) ; Witherslack Moss 
(Barnes) ; near Llanberis (Boswell). 
_ Ihave referred this plant to Huebener’s variety, as it closely 
accords with his description. The plants have a dirty brownish 
tinge, and their closely placed fascicles with the branches of equal 
length give it rather a peculiar’ appearance, not usual in any forms 
of Sph. acutifolium. 
Var. p. lete-virens, BRAITHW. 
Growing in small dense tufts, bright green above, light or 
ochraceous brown below. Stem leaves ovate, short, or elongated ; 
the apex obtuse, obscurely 5-toothed; the cells without fibres. 
Branches in rather remote fascicles, elongated, ascending and 
divergent ; the leaves loosely imbricated, large, broadly ovate at 
base, suddenly narrowed into a longish, truncate, 5-toothed point. 
Has.—By the margin of moorland streams. 
At Darnholm and Kazebeck, Goathland, Yorkshire (Braithwaite), Reawick, 
Shetland (Sim). 
This may possibly be a form of the next variety, but as I have 
no authentic types of the latter it may for the present stand apart. 
The small dense cushions, of a beautiful bright green colour while 
growing, are very unusual in this species, from which some shade 
of red is hardly ever absent. At Darnholm it grows with 
Sph. molle, B, and thus got accidentally introduced into the 
Sphag. Brit. Exsic. with that plant; at Kazebeck it is found 
intermixed with Sph. cymbzfolium var. congestum. 
Var. v. patulum, Scuimp. 
Plants more robust, pale green. Branches lax, elongated, 
flexuose, spreading; their leaves longer, patent, laxly incumbent, 
broadly ovate, loosely areolate. Stem leaves large, the apex 
obtuse, lacerate, or fimbriate. 
Synon.—Sph. acutifolium var. £ patulum, Scuimp. Synops. p. 674, et ed. 2, 
p. 826. BrarrHw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic. n. 41. 
