DICEANDM. 71 



Var. ^. PALUDOSUM. Dense bright green tufts, much 

 radiculose. L. short, broad, subsecund, sharply serrate 

 and rugulose at apex. 



Scotland, Derbyshire. 



h. L. transversely undulate. 



69. D. Bonjeanii, De Not. {B. palustre, ed. 1). St. 

 3 — 6 inches, erect, branched, subfastigiate. L. spread- 

 ing, subsecund, linear-lanceolate, acute, terminal ones 

 crowded into a cuspidate cluster on the barren shoots, 

 serrate at apex, nerve thin and narrow, not reaching 

 to apex, smooth at back or faintly serrate near apex, 

 their upper cells elongate. Caps, suberect, slightly 

 curved, subcylindrical, striate. 



Marshy places and moist banks. Aug., September. 



Var. 0. jnNiPEEiFOLiUM. With shorter, wider, and 

 more rigid leaves. 



Var. 7. CALCABEUM. St. shorter, more rigid. L. 

 secund, subfalcate, margins incurved, slightly undulate 

 and serrate only at apex. 



Rare.. 



Sussex. 



70. D. Bergeri, Bland. (D. Schraderi, ed. 1). St. 

 3 — 6 inches. L. broadly lanceolate, subsecund, rather 

 obtuse, carinato- concave, subrugose, toothed on margin 

 and keel, subpapillose at back near apex, upper cells 

 small, quadrate, nerve vanishing at apex. Caps, oval- 

 oblong, incurved, lid rostrate. 



Turfy bogs. Rare. August, September. 



Risley Moss and Wybunbury Bog, Cheshire. 



71. D. spurium, Hedw. St. 2 — 4 inches, loosely 

 csespitose, densely tomentose. L. ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, eroso-denticulate, papillose at back, not 



