SPHAGNUM HUMILE, Schimp.
Tab. 3.
Plantæ humiles, 1–5-unciales, robustiuscuhe, in cæspitibus glauccscenti-viridibus inferne sordide albesccntibus degentes.
Caulis simplex vel bifurcatus, strato corticali triplici poris carentc vestitus: ramulis 2–3 fasciculatis plus minus congestis squarroso-foliosis, 1–2 erecto-patentibus vel deflexis, cæteris gracilioribus pendulis; cellulis corticalibus stratum simplex formantibus elongatis, nonnullis apice leniter recurvo pertusis.
Folia caulina triangulari-ovata oblongave, crecta vel reflexa, apice eroso-dentata, parce porosa, fibrillis plerumque destituta: folia ramulorum majorum oblonga, acuminata, apice truncato denticulata, laxe incumbentia, e basi ad medium erecta amplex-ante, dehinc squarrosa; apicalia stricta, lanceolato-subulata; omnia angustissime marginata; cellulis hyalinis latiusculis elongato-rhomboideis vel angulato-fusiformibus porosis fibrillosis; cellulis chlorophyllosis versus folii dorsum positis ibidemque subemersis, transverse sectis cuneiformi-ellipticis.
Flores dioici? masculi ignoti: feminei in caulis capitulo gemmæformes curvuli.
Capsula globosa exserta: perichætii raro dissoluti foliis superioribus elongato-oblongis sensim acuminatis late marginatis fibrillis porisque instructis.
Sphagnum humile, Schimp. in schedis et in Gesch. d. Torftn. p. 80; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 14; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 11.
Sphagnum compactum, Brid. e Miill. Sjnop. Musc. 1, p. 99.
Hab. Tallahassee, Florida, Rugel. Lookout Mountains, Alabama, Lesquereux. New Jersey, James, Austin.
