- patent reflexed, ovate-oblong, with a broadish border, very
concave on the branches, pale yellowish white; utricles of the branches between the leaves recurved at points; caps. small orange-red, on a long pedicel: dioicous.
Wet hollows on peat bogs. V. VI.
13. S. rubellum. Wils. St. 2-5in. slender loosely tufted with slender deflexed sometimes curved branches; st. l. large ovate-oblong concave obtuse sub-secund with a minutely toothed apex; br. l. ovate or oblong-ovate, margins indexed, capsule almost included: dioicous.
Peat mosses, fr. rare. VI. VII.
Sect. II. Leaves acuminate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate.
a. Leaves erecto-patent.
14. S. acutifolium. Ehr. St. 3-6in. with slender attenuated branches; stem. l. small ovate acute erect; branch l. ovate-lanceolate slightly præmorse with a 3-4 toothed apex, erecto-patent, often with a pinkish tinge, sometimes almost white; pedicel long; monoicous.
Bogs and marshes. VI. VII.
15. S. fimbriatum. Wils. St. slender 6-12in. loosely cæspitose, with slender deflexed branches; st. l. obovate broad very obtuse, and fringed at the summit; br. l. ovate-lanceolate acute erecto-patent, whitish, never reddish; p. l. very large obtuse, cucullate; caps. on a short pedicel, nearly enclosed in the per. leaves: monoicous.
Bogs and marshes. VI. VII.
16. S. cuspidatum. Dill. Ehr. St. 3-12in., flaccid with distant deflexed attenuated branches, the younger ones
