SPHAGNUM. 51 



5-tootlied. St. 1. large, fibrose in upper cellsj or some- 

 times through.out. 



Ditches and sides of pools. Not common. 



Var. S. AURicuLATUM. St. generally greenish. ; st. 1. 

 large, lingulato-acuminatej subhastate at base, with 

 very' large auricles, composed of fibrose utricular cellsy 

 apex truncate and erose. 



Hayward's Heath, Sussex, &c. 



C. Eigida. 



Densely ramulose, forming compact, cushion-like 

 tufts. Br. 1. erecto-patent, oblong, concave, very 

 narrowly bordered, apex obtuse, truncate, and toothed, 

 margin involute for the greater part of its extent. 

 Monoicous. 



14. S. rigidum, ScMmp. Tufts dense, rigid when 

 dry. St. 3 — 10 inches, dark brown, closely branched, 

 bark cells small, non-porose, of 2 — 3 strata. Br. 3 — 4, 

 short, 1 — 2 erecto-patent, obtuse, the rest slender, 

 deflexed, flagelliform. St. 1. minute, erect, oblique, 

 broadly ovate, auricled, apex erose, border broad, cells 

 without fibres or pores, or a few fibres only near base, 



" Br. 1. ovate-oblong, slightly cucuUate, cells fibrose, 

 with unequal pores, chl. cells small, much compressed, 

 central. L. of pendent br. narrower, distant. 



Marshy heaths and moorlands. July. 



Var. /8. coMPACTUM. St. ^ — 2 inches. Br. short', 

 thick, and compact, generally pale tinged with red; 

 br. 1. rounded at apex. 



Drier places. 



Var. 7. SQUAEEOSULTTM, Buss. Tufts looser. Br. 

 more distant. L. of divergent br. squarrose. 



15. \ S. molle, SulL] Tufts soft, whitish-green above, 



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