Marsh vegetation. rare.

A genus of mosses growing in boggy or swampy places; bog-moss, peat moss; also, one or other of the species or plants composing this genus.

various species of Sphagnum, by the growth and decay of which bogs are chiefly formed.

Any of the large mosses constituting the genus Sphagnum or the family Sphagnaceae, which grow in dense, absorbent masses on boggy ground, where…

peat formed from mosses, esp. those of the genus Sphagnum.