1004 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Sphagnum 
more common, having been discovered at Powerscourt waterfall, and in 
several spots of the romantic parts of Kerry. On shady banks and rocks 
exposed to the spray of the waterfall above Turk Cottage, Killarney, 
growing with the very rare Jungermannia Hutchinsice . Mr. Mackay. E.) 
MUSCI. 
SPHAG'NUM.^ Barr. FI. club-shaped: Anthers flat: Caps. 
on the same plant, sessile : Mouth smooth, covered with 
a lid, without any entire veil. 
S. palus'tre. Branches bent downwards, (swollen: leaves ovate, 
blunt, ventrieose. E.) 
Jtledw. Th. 12. 42 fo 45, and 13. 46. 47, Hist. i. 1. 1, lb. ii. 3. 9—(E. 
Bot. 1405— Muse. Brit. iv. E.)— Vaill. 23. 3 — Bill. 32. 1— FI. Dan. 474 
—Schmid. 58. 5—Pluk. 101. 1— Scheuch. It. i. 5, 4, at p. 38 —Lob. Ic. ii. 
242. 2—Bod. 472* 1 —Ger. Em. .1559. I—Park. 1306. n,h , 
The capsules burst with a cracking noise. Linn. Stems growing many 
together, from three to twelve inches high, upright,, sometimes divided. 
Branches at short distances, two, three, or four from the same part, 
heavy and hanging down from abundance of moisture. Leaves white, 
egg-shaped, concave, soft, tiling the branches. Capsules at first sessile, 
but afterwards they attain short fruit-stalks. Dill. Involucrum scaly. 
Capsules nearly globular, when open urn-shaped, generally several to¬ 
gether at the top of the stem. Lid convex, pointed, deciduous. 
Grey Bog-moss. (S. latifolium. Hedw. Sm. Purt. S. obtusifolium. HofFm. 
Hook. Grev. E.) Common peat bogs. * P. July—Aug.t 
Var. 2. The whole habit more slender, more branched/ capsules smaller. 
Schmid. 58. 6— Bill. 32. 2 — Hedw. Hist. i. 3. 3— Mapp. at p. 200. C .— E. 
Bot. 1406— Muse. Brit. iv. E.) 
((S', capillifolium. Hedw. Sm. S. acutifolium. Ehrh. Hook. Grev. E.) 
Var. 3. Whole plant of a beautiful peach colour. 
On Bogs in the New Forest, Hants. 
In var. 1, the leafits are concave, oblong, blunt; in 2, flat, awl-shaped, 
sharp. 
S. alpFnum. Somewhat branched, upright: (leaves bristle-shaped, 
straightish: capsule somewhat ovate, furrowed: stalk zigzag: veil 
fringed. E.) 
* (A name adopted from Pliny by Dillenius and Linnaeus; but to what bind of Moss 
it was originally applied cannot now be ascertained, any more than its correct significa¬ 
tion. E.) 
*{* (Mr. W. Curtis obtained the reward of the Society of Arts for his valuable applica¬ 
tion of this Moss to the packing of young ti-ees for exportation. It should be laid in 
courses between the trees, and being wonderfully retentive of moisture, and seeming to 
possess an antiseptic property, which totally prevents fermentation or putrefaction, vegeta¬ 
tion actually proceeds during the time the trees remain enclosed. Month. Mag. vol.28. SOS- 
Used by the Lapland women to wrap their children in: cradles thus lined affording an 
excellent defence from cold. This genus of plants is singularly elegant, even to the naked 
eye, but far more interesting when its beauties are displayed under the lens. E.„) 
