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Var. €. Torreyi (Sutuiv.), BRarTHW. 
Robust, in lax floating tufts, rigid, 8-16 in. high, of a reddish 
brown colour. Branches 4-5, attenuated, their leaves very large, 
elongato-lanceolate, tubulose and toothed at apex, the hyaline cells 
with numerous minute pores. Stem leaves large, deltoid, without 
fibres. 
Synon.—Sph. Torreyanum, Suuiiv. Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. iv. p. 175 (1849) ; 
Mosses of Un. St. p. 13, n. 16 (1856); Musc. Bor.-Amer. n. 9 (1856). 
Sph. auriculatum, LEsQ. in Mem. Calif. Ac. Sc. i. pt. 1, p. 4 (1867). SuLi. Lesa. 
Musc. Amer. Exsic. n. 23. 
Sph, Mendocinum, Suu. LzsQ. Icon. Musc. Suppl. p. 12, t. 3 (1874). 
Sph, cuspidatum var. 8. Torreyi, Bratruw. in M. Micr. Journ. Feb. 1875, p. 64. 
Has.—N. America: Ponds in pine barrens of New Jersey (Torrey) ; California, 
in great bogs at 8000-go000 feet, near King’s River (Brewer) ; Swamps near Mendo- 
cino City (Bolander). 
Sect. I].—Hemitrueca, Lindo. 
Plants of peculiar habit, somewhat resembling that of Lypnum 
sarmentosum or stramineum, firm, slender, and elongated. Branches 
lateral, solitary or sometimes in pairs, short, distant, slender, sub- 
clavate, obtuse, arcuato-decurved. Leaves and perichetial bracts 
alike, ovate-oblong, obtuse, with very large chlorophyllose cells, and 
densely annulate, non-porose hyaline cells. Capsule very small, 
after the fall of the large operculum, hemispherical, wide-mouthed, 
resembling that of a Physcomitrium. 
19. Sphagnum Pylaiei, Bripet. 
PL, XXVIII. 
Dioicous ; stem simple, with a single layer of cuticular cells; 
branches solitary, or sometimes two or three together, slender, 
uniform, deflexed. Stem leaves and branch leaves alike; oblong- 
ovate, very concave, entire, obtuse; chlorophyllose cells oval in 
section, free both in front and back. Capsule immersed, on short 
lateral branches, hemispherical when empty. 
Synon.—.Sph. Pylaesii, BriDeL, Bryol. Univ. i. p. 749 (1826). SuLzivant, 
Icon. Muse, p. 12, t. 6 (1864), et Suppl. p. 15, t. 6 (1875). Austin, Muse. Appal. 
No. 23 (1870). 
Sph. sedoides var. Suit. Lesgx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. No. 4 (1856). SuLt. 
‘Mosses of Un. St. p. 12 (1856). 
Sph. cymbifolium, forma juvenilis, C. MOLL. Synops. i. p. 92 (1849). 
Dioicous; olive green, fuscous or blackish. Stem erect, slender, 
undivided, 3-6 in. high, with a single layer of small cuticular cells, 
and a narrow reddish-brown peripheral layer. 
