ICONES MUSCORUM.
SPHAGNUM MACROPHYLLUM, Bernh.
Tab. 1.
Plantæ 6–8-unciales, in aquis stagnantibus multo longiores, pallide olivaceo-virides inferne dilute fusccscentes, siccitate splendentes rigidulæ.
Caulis simplex vel innovatione seuiel dichotomus, firmus, fuscus, fasciculatim 3–4-ramulosus: ramulis conformibus strictis divergenti-dependentibus subflabellatim laxius foliosis; strato corticali caulium duplici vel triplici, ramulorum partim simplici partim duplici vel triplici e cellulis inflatis, illis ramulorum parcissime porigeris, formato.
Folia caulina miuuta, e basi latissima ovato-oblonga, apice-obtusa, integerrima: folia ramulina rigidula, angustc lauceolata, lanceolato-subulata, involuto-concava, apice truncatulo 7–8-dentata, cellulis angustissimis 1–2-seriatis margiuata; cellulis hyalinis in foliis caulinis ramuliuisque elongatis flexuoso-fusi-formibus poris in linea media longitrorsum positis instructis, fibrillis (ut in tota planta) omnino deficicntibus; cellulis chloro-phyllosis ad utramque folii faciem emersis inque sectione trans- versali suborbiculatis.
Flores dioici: masculi ignoti: feminei in caulis capitulo et laterales laxe gemmacei; archegoniis 3–4.
Capsula in pseudopodio breviusculo elata, subglobosa; sporis tetraedris papillulosis sulpliureis circa 1800 unc. mctientibus:
