SPHAGNACEAE 1 5 



Var. flavicomans (Card.) A. L. Andrews. "Southward 

 along the coast to N. J.," N. Am. Flora; New Haven, Bry. Ct. 



S. portoricense Hampe. "Ponds and pools of Southern N. 

 J.," Muse. App. i. "Manchester Pond, Ocean Co.," Flora N.J. 



S. pulchrum (Lindb.) Warnst. "Labrador to N. J.," N. 

 Am. Flora. 



S. Pylaesii Brid. Border of Pond, Manchester, Ocean Co., 

 N. J., Austin, Bx! 



S. recurvum Beauv. Orient, Latham; East Haven, etc., Bry. 

 Ct. 



S. squarrosum Crome. "Southward to N. J.," N. Am. Flora. 



S. strictum Sull. "Swamps and bogs, Northern N. J.," Muse. 

 App. 20. Fide label on this number in the N. Y. Bot. Gardens 

 collection (issued as 5. Girgensohnii). 



S. subsecundum Nees. Common. A synonym of .S. lari- 

 cinum Spruce and of S. neglectum Angstr. 



S. tabulare Sull. (S. molle Sull.) "Southern N. J. to Flor- 

 ida," Muse. App. 9; "Northport, Sanial," Flora L. Id. 



S. tenellum Pers. (S. molluscum Bruch) "Peat bogs in water 

 an inch or less in depth in Pine Barrens," Flora N. J. 



S. tenerum Sull. & Lesq. New Haven, Bry. Ct. [as 5. tenerum 

 (Aust.) Warnst.] 



S. teres (Schimp.) Angstr. "Low grounds, Closter and Southern 

 N. J.," Muse. App. 21 and Suppl. 452; "Budds Lake," Flora N. J. 



S. Warnstorfii Russow. Hampden, etc., Bry. Ct. 



ORDER II. ANDREAEALES 



Characterized chiefly by the dehiscence of the capsule, which 

 splits into four valves after the manner of the Hepaticae, the 

 valves remaining coherent at the apex; also by the absence of 

 any air cavity between the capsule walls and the spore sac. 



