88 THE SPHAGNACEZ OR PEAT-MOSSES OF EUROPE, ETC. 
uniform and similar, divergent, dependent, straight, subflabellate, 
lax-leaved, the cuticular cells short, uniform, with few pores. 
Branch leaves rather rigid, subdistichous, small at base of 
branch, soon becoming elongated, narrowly lanceolate and lanceo- 
late-subulate, involute-concave, bordered by 1-2 rows of extremely 
narrow cells; apex somewhat truncate, with 7-8 teeth. Hyaline 
cells elongated, flexuoso-fusiform, with 6-10 pores in a longitudinal 
median line, free from fibres; chlorophyllose cells circular in 
section, separating the hyaline both in front and back. 
Fruit in the upper fascicles or in the coma, divergent ; peri- 
chetial bracts 6-9, lax oblong-ovate, uppermost convolute, truncate 
and toothed at apex, the areolation resembling that of the branch 
leaves. Capsule small, on a shortish slender peduncle. Spores 
sulphur-coloured. 
Male plant and prothallium unknown. 
Has.—Sandy bogs. Rare. 
N. America.—Near Philadelphia (Bernhardi) ; Swamps in Louisiana (Drum- 
mond); Raccoon Mountains, Alabama (Lesquereux) ; Green County (Mississippi 
(Tice); New Jersey (Austin) ; Wilmington, N. Carolina (Sullivant). 
Quite peculiar among the Spagna, by the uniform branches, 
the slender pendent ones, ordinarily present, being wanting, and 
also by the central position of the pores, and total absence of fibrils. 
In general aspect it resembles the plumose state of Sfh. cusfi- 
datum, or even some forms of Hypnum fluitans, to which also the 
areolation at first sight somewhat approximates. 
ADDENDA. 
Shh. tenellum var. longifolium. 
Snowdon, near Llanberis (Boswell, 1874). 
Sph. magnifolium, WIS. Mss. in Herbar. suo, probably also Sph. Kinlayanum, 
WILs. in schedis. 
Ben Wyvis, Ross (McKinlay). 
I can see in this only a form of Sph. subsecundum var. contortum, having very 
large stem leaves, evidently developed at the expense of the branches, which are few 
and distant or nearly absent ; the comal branches are, however, quite normal. 
