[f. sphagn-, SPHAGNUM: see -OLOGIST.] A special student of, or authority on, the sphagna.
1886. Jrnl. Roy. Microsc. Soc., VI. 108. The very great diversity displayed by different sphagnologists in the limitation of species.
So Sphagnology, the special study of the sphagna (Cent. Dict., 1891).