B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 30-31. 1999-2000 (Budapest, 2000)

Szurdoki, Erzsébet, Tóth, Zoltán; Pelles, Gábor: The Sphagnum populations of the Zemplén Mts, NE Hungary

Vendvidék and in Őrség (PÓCS 1958), in the Kőszeg Mts, and in Tarnavidék (BAKALÁR et al. 1975), as well as from the Zemplén Mts. S. fallax and S. flexuosum are new species for the Zemplén Mts. The following occurrences belong to this category: There is a Sphagnum flexuosum patch in Bika-rét (see 12 on Fig. 1 and Table 3), under the young spruce stand (Telkibánya 10F forest stand). It grows in moist, acidic forest-soil near extensive populations of Lycopodium annotinum (ODOR 1996). There are Sphagnum fallax patches on the roadside embankment near Csaponta spring, (see 13 on Fig. 1 and Table 3, Telkibánya) and in front of the northeastern slope of Hercegfia-bérc (see 14 on Fig. 1 and Table 3, Telkibánya 681 forest stand). On Hercegfia-bérc, the peatmoss grows with Lycopodium annotinum, Calamagrostis epigeios, Agrostis capillaris and Molinia arundinacea. There is a new Sphagnum fallax occurrence (15 on Fig. 1 and Table 3) on the side of the ski-run of Magas Hill (Sátoraljaújhely). The size of the patch is about 0.5 rrf

. When SIMON (1970) made a bryocoenological and ecological study in the Zemplén Mts, he collected data from Magas Hill too, but he did not find any Sphagnum there. Near Telkibánya, Vajda (VAJDA 1959, 1969) found S. palustre on Bíró Hill (16 on Fig. 1 and Table 3) and on Kis Farkas Hill (17 on Fig. 1 and Table 3). The authors did not find the vouchers from Kis Farkas Hill either in BP or in EGR, but they could find the specimen from the Bíró Hill in EGR (it was correctly identified as S. palustre). These two occurrences have not been found by authors so far. Sphagnum occurrences in forests In Hungary, Sphagnum patches can rarely be found even on acidic forest soil, because they need suitably moist, cool and humid microclimate beside the basic need of lime free soil. The most typical forest occurrences of Sphagnum were described from Vendvidék and Őrség (PÓCS 1958) and Vasi-Hegyhát (BARBALICS 1967), where these patches are composed of S. capillifolium, S. rubellum, S. quinquefarium and rarely of S. russowii (PÓCS 1958, SZURDOKI 1996). Similar forest occurrences can be also found in the Zemplén Mts. On the riolite bedrock of Lackó Hill, the acidophilous oak forests and beech forests are mixed with birch stands (SIMON 1911 b). On the boulder of the northern slope a small Sphagnum patch thrives (see 18 on Fig. 1 and Table 3). This occurrence was reported earlier (SOÓ 1938, BOROS 1953, 1964, 1968, VAJDA 1951, 1953, 1955, 1969, SIMON 1977.6) as a fairly large, of several nf sized patch of Sphagnum. Today, this is very small, only a few dm

2 sized patch of Sphagnum