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Flowers and Fruit. Dioicous. Capsules oval. 

 Locality. Bogs and pools. 



Variety. S. obesum, stout bog moss ; stems very thick ; branches thick ; leaves 

 large ; growing in water. 



Fig. 11. Sphagnum squarrosum. 

 Spreading-leaved Bog Moss (a) . 



Colour. Whitish-brown. 



Stems. Rigid ; three inches to one foot or more long. Branches two to four to- 

 gether; fewer and more scattered than in S. contortum, attenuated, deflexed. 



Leaves (b) . Ovate, acuminate, acute, spreading (squarrose) , recurved. 



Flowers and Fruit. Monoicous. Capsule large. All the species of Sphagnum 

 bear fruit in summer. 



