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Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule very small, on long stalk [pedicle) ; brown. 

 Locality. Bogs. 



The most delicate-looking of the species. 



Fig. 5. Sphagnum rubellum. 

 Red Bog Moss (a) . 



Colour. Dull red. 



Stems. Two to four inches long. Branches tapering to a point (attenuated), 



two and three together, turning back (deflexed) . 

 Leaves (b) . Small, roundish-ovate, very concave. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsule small. Very rare. 

 Locality. Bogs. 



II. Leaves pointed (acuminate), ovate, or ovate-lanceolate. 

 Fig. 6. Sphagnum acutifolium. 

 Sliarp-leaved Bog Moss (a). 



Colour. Dirty brown ; shoots often tinged with red or lilac. 



Stems. Three to twelve inches long. Branches three to five together, the lower 



one or two together, and deflexed. 

 Leaves (b) . Pointed egg-shaped {ovate-lanceolate) . Perichastial leaves small. 

 Floivers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule brownish-black. Very common. 

 Locality. Bogs and marshes ; with S. cymbifolium the most abundant of the 



species. 



Fig. 7. Sphagnum fimbeiatum. 



Fringed Bog Moss (a) . 



Colour. Whitish-green. 



Stems. Very slender, branches slender, the upper three to five together, the 



lower one and two, and deflexed. 

 Leaves (b) . Branch-leaves (b) ovate, lance-shaped, running to a point (acuminate), 



stem-leaves (c) very broad, fringed at the end (fimbriated) . Perichaatial 



leaves very large. 



