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Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Peristome :: Peristome (n.) The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double..

Paraphysis :: Paraphysis (n.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants..

Vaginula :: Vaginula (n.) A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses..

Lid :: Lid (n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

Wolf''s-claw :: Wolf's-claw (n.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..

Muscales :: Muscales (n. pl.) An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna..

Rostellum :: Rostellum (n.) A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm..

Tillandsia :: Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses..

Flow :: Flow (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

Hag :: Hag (n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

Tundra :: Tundra (n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia..

Fringe :: Fringe (n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.

Enmossed :: Enmossed (a.) Covered with moss; mossed.

Mossy :: Mossy (superl.) Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams..

Rootery :: Rootery (n.) A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening..

Moss :: Moss (v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.

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