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Beneath the ferns was moss; I scraped it away with the Watcher.
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The third placed in my hand a moss-rose bud; then, a Venus-car.
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Coming around the point she saw him, caught in Muss's air-moss farm.
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And the trees whose branches interwove above the grave-greyalso with moss.
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The cattle, as the driving ceased, sank down wearily in the moss.
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The mosses help produce a mat that insulates the soil View Article
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It lies in the midst of swamps, covered with mosses and reeds.
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In winter, mosses and the bark of trees were our common food.
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We walked out upon a small point cushioned with mosses and ferns.
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But the mosses and tiles of an old Brookshire barn beat him.
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The Bryophyta are divided into the Hepaticae (liverworts) and Musci (mosses).
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Catherine Leonard, preparing for a Musci Network tour.
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See Hooker's Musci Exotici, 1818 tab.
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In the Hepaticae we can recognize three subordinate groups-theMarchantiales, Jungermanniales and Anthocerotales; and in the Musci also three groups-theSphagnales, Andreaeales and Bryales.
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The former subdivision of the Bryales into Musci Cleistocarpi and Musci Stegocarpi according to the absence or presence of an operculum is thus clearly artificial.
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The Bryophyta are divided into the Hepaticae (liverworts) and Musci (mosses).
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Others consider Pteridophyta and Bryophyta to be separate classes.
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On the other hand we know practically nothing of Palaeozoic Bryophyta, and the evidence even for their existence at that period cannot be termed conclusive.
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Other lines which start from the level of the primitive many-celled Algae develop into the Mosses (Bryophyta), Ferns (Pteridophyta), Horsetails (Equisetalia), and Club-mosses (Lycopodiales).
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True mosses aren't actually fussy about where they grow, so they are no good as natural compasses.