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guished—in the Cuspidata group—by the ovate-lingulate or broadly 
lingulate stem-leaves rounded at apex 
4. Sphagnum elegans C.M. in Flora, 1887, p. 413. 
Warnstorf records this from both Islands. I have it from the 
South I., collected by R. Brown. 
5. Sphagnum Kirkii Warnst. in Bot. Centralbl. lxxxii, 53 (1900). 
Warnstorf records this from Auckland. I ha t also from 
Dunedin, coll. P. Martin. The branch-leaves are slightly recurved 
when dry, and very little undulate. 
6. Peioaes linguaefolium Warnst. in Bot. Centralbl. lxxvi, 421 
(1898 
see gives no locality for this beyond New Zealand, coll. 
Dall. 
7. Sphagnum irritans Warnst. in Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr., 1895, 
p. 173. 
Syn. S. molliculum Wils., non Mitt. 
Warnstorf cites this from Chatham I. only. 
8. tae Setchellii Warnst. in Hedwig. xlvii, 121 (1907). 
Warnstorf describes and figures this as a plant with habit of 
S. cu ter renin var. plumosu m, having long, narrow branch-leaves. It 
was collected by Setehell in ts North I. 
9. ares lanceolatum Warnst. in HGiwiv: xxix, 219 (1890). 
Described by Warnstorf as like 8S. ap and evidently 
differing from it only by some slight characte 
Collected by Colenso in one loca lity 
10. Sphagnum cuspidatum Ehrh. in Pl. erypt., n. 251 hia 
Warnstorf cites for New Zealand, besides the typ 
Var. plumulosum Schimp. in Hist. nat. des. Sph., - 68 (1857) ; 
: ). 
Otago, Beckett 
Subsect. Sussecunpa Schlieph. 
1. Sphagnum novo-zelandicum Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot., 
99 (1859). 
In habit and form of branch-leaves much like S. antar cticum, 
but totally different in the stem-leaves, oblong or obovate-lingulate 
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