SPHAGNUM. 67 



1. large, longer, deeply fringed. Br. 1. long, lanceolate, 

 with a subulate point, recurved when dry, no fibres in 

 upper cells. 



Var. 8. ET3LCHEUM, Braith., Sphag., p. 81. Robust, 

 densely tufted> yellow-green, with a golden fulvous 

 tinge above. St. 1. acute, contracted at point into a 

 minute, recurved apiculus, cells in upper part fibrillose. 



Fowlshaw Moss and Broadgate Bog (Stabler), 

 Wheeldale Moor (Anderson), Carrington Moss (Hunt), 

 Whitchurch, Salop (Boswell, 1882). 



23. S. cuspidatum, Elir. Tufts soft, submerged or 

 floating, generally greenish. St. 6 — 18 inches, slender, 

 pale green, cortical cells 2 — 3 layers, not porose. St. 

 1. ovate-oblong, with a broad border of very narrow 

 cells, upper half fibrose. Br. 3 — 5 in fasc, ail diver- 

 gent or 1 — 2 pendent but not concealing the stem. 

 Br. 1. narrowly lanceolate, imbricate, flexuose when 

 dry, often slightly falcato-secund, with a broader 

 border. Chi. cells trigono-eUiptic, free on posterior 

 ■surface. Dioicous. 



Moorlands in pools. Frequent. July. 



Var. h. ToEBETANUM. Very large and robust, colour 

 dirty brown. St. stout. St. 1. large, without fibres ; 

 br. 1. very large, elongate, lanceolate-acuminate, 

 broadly margined, erose-denticulate, and semitubular 

 at apex. 



Wet bogs; near Whitchurch, Salop. H. Boswell, 

 ■October, 1882. 



