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90 STEGOCARPI. ACROCARPI. s p h a g n u m .
7. Cellularum forma. D i v e r s i s s im a , b r e v i s v e l e l o u -
o a t a , a n g u s t a v e l a m p ia , e x a c t e p r o s e n c h ym a t i c a { h y -
pnoldea v e l angulata) p a r ie t ib u s s t r i c t i s c om p o s it a v e l p lu r
i e s f l e x u o s a (serpentina). F o rm a e iu t e rm e d ia e f a c d e d c n -
v a r i p o s s u n t .
S p e r am u s f o r e , u t b i s c e n o t is a c t e rm iu is necessarie
iu ip o n e u d is s p e c i e s S p h a g n o r um f a c i l e a tq u e f c l i c i t e r d i -
s t in g u a i i tu r .
F r u c t i f i c a t io n i s t em p u s om n ium c o n g e n e r u m E u r o p a e o -
r u m , r e g . t e n ip e r a t a e , a r c t i c a e e t c a lid io r is ; a e s t a t e , m e u -
s ib . Julii e t Augusti. AI.
Fo l i a f i b r i s a n u u l a r i b u s nul l i s .
1 !8pli. s c ric e u in C. A liill. ( in b o t. Z e i t . 1847. p . 481.);
l a x c c c s p i t o s u m ; c a u l i s e r e c t u s lo n g u s a p ic em v e r s u s s e n s
im c r e s c e n s ; r am i t e n u e s f l e x u o s i p r o t e n s i lo n g i a t t e n u a t i
p le r um q u e b in i , c o m a l e s b r e v e s e r e c t i v . horizontales ju -
laceo - cuspidati ; fo lia c a u l in a cuspidata p ia n i s s im a s u b u n -
d u la ta t e n u i s s im e m em b r a n a c e a ; r am e a f l a v e s c e i i t ia s e r i c
e a lanceolata acuminata im m a r g in a t a in t e g e r r im a , c a n n
a t o - c o n c a v a , basi la x e , apicem versus sensim densissime
areolata e cellulis hreviusculis semel perforatis, ductibus
heteromorpMs cellulosis in s t r u c t i s c om p o s it a .
Patria. Sumatra insula septentrionalis in terrae Batta
dictae monte altissimo Lubu Radja, ubi in altitudine c.
4000' cespitibus immaniter dilatatis luxuriat: J u n g l i u in
l e g i t .
Cellulae ramorum inanes.
P ia n t a s p e c i o s i s s im a a tq u e e x t o to f ib r is a n n u la r ib u s
c a r e n s a f e r e om n ib u s c o n g e n e r ib u s d i s t in c t i s s im a . S i
q u is a u t e m , n o ta l ia c c e e x c e l l e u t i s s im a r a t io n em c o n f ir m
a r i , s p e c i e m e S p h a g n i s e x c lu d c n d am e s s e , d i c e r e t ; fo h a
p e d u n c u la r ia n u n c f ib r is , n u n c n u l l is in s t r u c t a e s s e s i g n i -
f ic am u s . — F o r am in a in a n g u l i s c e llu la r u m p o s ita .
Ex babitu Sph. cuspidato simile sed ramis julaccis
et cellulis, ductibus apicem versus valde cellulosis incrass
a tis , minimis ct densissime areolatis fere liomogeneis
amoene scriccis facile distinguitur.
2. Spi», »nacrophyllujn Beriiliardi (in Brid. Bryol.
univ. I. p. 10.); caulis erectus firmus subsimplox ; ramulis
binis teriiisve fasciculatis, fasciciilis altcrnis rcmotis; folia
caulina appressa parva lato-ovalia rotundata, quaium
ccllulae brevcs inanes ductibus sublicteromorpliis interpo-
sitis, immargiiiata integerrima; ramea longa canaliculata
subulata truncatida e cellulis longissimis angustissimis
hypnoidcis foruminibus c. 9. seriatis, ductibus subhetero-
niorpliis intcrpositis composita, basi vaginato - imbricata
apice patula. Cactera desunt.
Sphagnum macrophy llum Brid. I. p. 753. excludeiidiiin et ad
Leucobryum longifoUum revocandiim.
Patria. America septentrionalis prope Pliiladelpliiam.
— Ex adnotationibus S u l l i v a n t i i (p.50.) juxta Wilmington
iu Carolinae supcrioris paludosis arenosis. Ali veruni?
Ab omnibus congeneribus notis editis distinctissimum
ex habitu Leucobrya siibreferciis.
II. Fo l i a f i b r i s a n n u l a r i b u s i n s t r u c t a .
a. Folia apice ro tu n d a ta .
3. ¡Spi», cyiiiliifoliiin» Ehrh. (iu Ilannov. Mag. 1780.
p. 235.); compacte ccspitosum perrobustiim, ramis 1 — 4
rcmotiusculis patentibus strictis v. rarius curviusculis
crassis b revi-cuspidatis, comalibus brevissimis obtusis
densissime positis ; folia caulina latissime - ovalia apice
rotundata basi c cellulis longiusculis angustis apice obli-
quc-quadratis valde serpentinis amplis inanibus composita;
ramea ovalia brevia apice involuta obtusa immarginata
integra crecto-patentia, e cellulis hreviusculis aiigu-
lato-serpeiitinis subamplis composita; peduncularia latissime
ovalia truncato - obtusa integerrima immarginata,
quarum cellulae basilares longiusculae angustae ductibus
homomorphis, mediae ductibus hcteromorphis, apicales
valde serpcntinae ampliores ductibus homomorphis utrin-
(¡ue cellularum mediarum inanium et apice repietae; pedunculus
foliis multis laxe imbricatis concoloribus.
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