All the species may be considered as more or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />less alpine. They <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">usually</del> are most numerous in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />middle and northern parts of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName> and <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> america</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> ampullaceum</name><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">, <name type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Splachnum</supplied> sphaericum</name>, & <name type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Splachnum</supplied> tenue</name> </add>are usually met with south of the arctic <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />circle & are probably confinded to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> angustatum</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is more common <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">both</del> <add place="intralinear">in</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName> towards the arctic circle <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but soon again disappears, it occurs in the <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">Un</del><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">northern parts of the </add><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009136 https://www.geonames.org/6252001">United <lb />states</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> vasculosum</name> has a wide range: it occurs in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />both continents, even to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008807 https://www.geonames.org/8180312">Melville island</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Sp.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> urceolatum</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is I believe wholly <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">European</placeName>, and is most frequent in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011377 https://www.geonames.org/830603"><lb />Lapland</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> mnioides</name> is common in the mountains of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />and if <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> arcticum</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Splachnum</supplied> propinquum</name>, & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Splachnum</supplied> exsertum</name> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">of <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455">Brown</persName></add> be the same, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it also occurs in the arctic regions of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> america</placeName>: <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> worm<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />skioldii</name> <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">has been</del> <add place="intralinear">was</add> </subst> first found in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010931 https://www.geonames.org/3425505">Greenland</placeName>, but has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />since been found, growing to a size 10, or 12 times greater <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in all <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">the</del> <add place="intralinear">arctic</add> </subst> america that the several English expedi<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />tions have reached to: <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> adamsonianum</name> has been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />found in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000343 https://www.geonames.org/2125072">Kamtschatka</placeName>, & arctic <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002429">america</placeName> (under the name of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> paradoxum</name> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455">Brown</persName>): <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> luteum</name> and <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Splachnum</supplied> rubrum</name> are <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">con</del>found <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />within the arctic circle of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>, but the former occurs <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />also within the same latitudes in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><add place="superlinear">North</add> America</placeName>. Lastly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>Sp.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> longicollum</name>, if really different from <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> tenue</name>, has only <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been found on the North West Coast of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> america</placeName>. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> <lb />magellanicum</name>, at the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008578 https://www.geonames.org/3845265"><choice> <sic>Straights</sic> <corr cert="high">Straits</corr> </choice> of Magellan</placeName>, & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Splachnum</expan> </choice> octo<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />blepharum</name> in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">New Holland</placeName>.