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EXTRACTS FROM THE NOTE BOOK FOR 1900. 
Sphagnum squarrosum Pers. Skiddaw, July, 1897. E. B. Benson. 
“ *S\ squarrosum Pers. var. spectabile Russ.”—E. C. H. 
S. subsecundum var. contortujn f. simphcissima . Skiddaw, July, 
1897 E. B. Benson. “This is an undeveloped and young 
‘ seedling' from one of the subsecundum segregates. Exactly 
analogous forms can be found very commonly in all the subsecundum 
species, and it might be possible in almost any handful of a 
submerged plant of this section to pick out certain undeveloped 
stems like this specimen. Mr. Gepp’s note quoted in the Report, 
1900, p. 46, scarcely represents what I stated to him. It should 
have said ‘ the relative numbers (not sizes) of pores on outer and 
inner surfaces of branch and stem leaves.’ So far as I can see it 
is S. Gravetii Warnst ? a young hemisophyllous form.”—E. C. H. 
Prof. Barker asks can all such abnormal forms be seedlings ? 
A specimen for instance ‘ loosely floating consisted of long stems 
and no branches or only a few very short and inconspicuous. No 
stems of normal form were seen. These could hardly be young 
seedlings and if the branches were undeveloped the stems and 
leaves were the opposite.” “ Mr. Horrell has precedent in Braith. 
Sph Eur. p. 48, for applying the term seedling to a similar form of 
sphagnum. May they not be innovation shoots ? The spns. I sent 
were however taken from good-sized tufts of plants all similar in 
form. A few stems gathered with them have small branches and 
some have the appearance of a single branch below apex which I 
take it may be an innovation R. de G. Benson. “ Simple stems 
which should be normally branched or pinnate, &c., are common 
in other mosses, notably in aquatics like the Harpidia They are 
often as long and otherwise as robust and well-developed as the 
branched ste°ms, and may have sprung up amongst older stems, and 
have been unable to branch on account of overcrowding.”— !. A.W. 
$ fimbriatum Wils. Newbridge bog, Sussex, June, ’99. W. E. 
Nicholson. “Yes. = var. robusium Braith. in Sphag. Brit. Exsicc. 
No 44 11877), teste Warnstorf in Hedwigia, 1884, 119. (My 
specimen of No. 44 is, however, S. teres , var. imbricatum , so there 
would appear to be a mixture of specimens in the Exsicc.) 
Bentley Park, Warwickshire, J. E. Bagnall, vii. ’87. “Two forms, 
fi) Shorter, more compact var. robus/um , Braith. (Warnst.) and 
2) more elongated, var. lenue Grav.”—E. C. H. “ I purposely put 
a spn. of both the short and tall form in each capsule, both having 
been gathered by the same pool and within a few feet of each 
other.”—J. E. Bagnall. 
S. medium Limpr. Foulshaw Moss, Westd, Sep., 1899. H. W. Lett 
and C. H. W t addell. White Moss v.c. 60, Wheldon and Wilson, 
Oct., 1899. “Yes. = var. roseum W 7 arnst.” 
