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Hoary :: Hoary (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.

Sphagnicolous :: Sphagnicolous (a.) Growing in moss of the genus Sphagnum.

Calyptra :: Calyptra (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body..

Wardian :: Wardian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman..

Pleurocarp :: Pleurocarp (n.) Any pleurocarpic moss.

Innovation :: Innovation (n.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses..

Lycopodium :: Lycopodium (n.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae; club moss..

Mossy :: Mossy (superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green..

Agar-agar :: Agar-agar (n.) A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

Perianth :: Perianth (n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

Sphagnum :: Sphagnum (n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.

Apophysis :: Apophysis (n.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses..

Jungermannia :: "Jungermannia (n.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceae..

Mossing :: Mossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mos.

Lichenin :: Lichenin (n.) A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss..

Podetium :: Podetium (n.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss..

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

Moss :: Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border..

Sphagnous :: Sphagnous (a.) Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss..

Sea Moss :: Sea moss () Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

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