82 THE SPHAGNACE4 OR PEAT-MOSSES OF 
18. Sphagnum cuspidatum, Enruart. 
PL. XXVI. anp XXVII. 
Dioicous ; very soft, in loose submersed or floating tufts, pale 
or deep green. Stems slender, pale green; the cuticular cells in 
2-3 strata. Stem leaves ovate-oblong, broadly bordered with very 
narrow elongated cells, hyaline cells of the upper half with 
numerous spiral fibres. Branches divergent, not concealing the 
stem; the leaves narrowly lanceolate, laxly imbricated, flexuose 
when dry. Spores ferruginous. 
Synon.—Sph. palustris mollis deflexi, squamis capillaceis var. B. fluitans, DILL. 
Hist. Musc. t. 32, fig. 2, B (1741), et Herbar. fol. 32, specimen on the right. 
Sph, cuspidatum, EuRu. Dec. Crypt. n. 251 (1791). Roru. Fl. Germ. iii. p. 120 
(1793). Horrm. Deutschl. Fl. ii. p. 22 (1796). Smiru, FI. Brit. p. 1147 (1804) ; 
Eng. Bot. t. 2092 (1819). Turn. Musc. Hib. p. 6 (1804). Brrp. Sp. Muse. i. 
p. 17 (1806) ; Mant. Musc. p. 2 (1819), et Bry. Univ. i. p. 14 (1826). Wes. Mour, 
Bot. Taschenb. p. 74, t. 6, f. 2 (1807). ScHKUHR, Deutsch]. Moose, p. 16, t. 7 (1810). 
ScuwAcr. Suppl. I. pt. 1, p. 16, t. 6 (1811). RouHLinc, Deutschl. Fl. iti. p. 35 
(1813). ScuuLtz, Suppl. Fl. Starg. p. 65 (1819). Fl. Danica, t. 1712 (1821). 
Gray, Nat. Arr. Br. Plants, i. p. 710, 4 (1821). Swartz, Adnot. Bot. p. 74 (1829). 
Hien. Muse. Germ. p. 29 (1833). Dozy, Mork. Prodr. Fl. Batav. p. 79 (1851). 
BerkeEL. Handb. Br. Moss. p. 307 (1863). Linps. in Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. xix. 
p- 135, n. 1 (1862). ScHrmp. Synops. ed. 2, p. 831 (1876). Harr. Skand. Fl. ed. 
3-6, et 8. Kurnocr. in Schr. K. Phys. C&k. Gesel. zu Konigs. 1872, p. 6. Hox: 
Syn. Br. Moss. p. 24 (1873). Brarruw. Sphag. Brit. Exsic, n. 50 (1877). 
Sph. capillaceum var. 8. cuspidatum, Wau. F). Lapp. p. 301 (1812); Fl. Suec. 
ed. 2, p. 807 (1833). 
Sph. laxifolium, C. MOLL. Synops. i. p. 97 (1849), et Deutschl. Moose, p. 126 
(1853). JENSEN, Bryol. Dan. p. 48, t. ii. fig. 9 (1856). Harr. op. cit. ed. 7, 
p- 399. Linps. in Bot. Notis. 1856, p. 121. SCHLIEPH. in Verh. Z. B. Gesel. Wien, 
1865, p. 396. MuLpE, Bry. Siles. p. 385 (1869). 
Sph. cuspidatum var. y. WILs. Bry. Brit. t. 4 (1855). 
Sph. cuspidatum B. submersum, Scuimp. Torfm. p. 61, t. xvi. fig. 1 8 (1858), et 
Synops. p. 676 (1860). 
Dioicous ; in loose submersed or floating tufts; plants very 
soft, light green, deep green, or more or less tinged with yellow or 
brown. 
Stems slender, flaccid, pale green, 6-18 in. or sometimes several 
feet in length; cuticular cells not porose, larger, well defined, in 
2-3 strata; those of the peripheral layers pale yellowish. Stem 
leaves ovate-oblong, pointed, with the margins involute at apex, 
broadly bordered with very narrow elongated cells, the hyaline 
cells of fhe upper half with numerous spiral fibres. 
Branches 3-5 in a fascicle, longer, often turned to one side and 
