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  BRUX - LoveToKnow Article on BRUX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Andreaeales may perhaps be looked on as a divergent primitive branch of the same stock.
On the other hand, the Sphagnales show such considerable and importar~t differences from the rest of the mosses, that like the Anthocerotales among the liverworts, they may be regarded as a group, the relationship of which to the main stem is at least problematical.
Between the Hepaticae, Anthocerotales, Sphagnales and Musci, there are no connecting forms known, and it must be left as an open question whether the Bryophyta are a monophyletic o.
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 Sphagnales
[ Solanales ] [ Sphagnales ] [ Stromatopteridales ]
Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.
For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.
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In the Andreaeales the columella does not extend to the upper end of the capsule, and the latter opens by a number of lateral slits.
The Sphagnales also have a dome-shaped spore-sac continued over the columella, and, though their capsule opens by an operculum, they differ widely from other mosses in the development of the sporogonium as well as in the characters of the sexual generation.
The three groups are described separately below, but some more general features of the mosses may be considered here.
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 DottyParker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Or maybe I shouldn't concern myself with this nonsense and open all the mail that's addressed to Dotty Parker.
I say females get Sphagnales since it's easier to say.
But then again, maybe I'm missing the whole point and including gender/sex in an area where we should really be looking at the whole creature.
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 peat moss --  Encyclopædia Britannica
also called bog moss, or sphagnum moss any of more than 160 species of plants of the subclass Sphagnidae, of the order Sphagnales, comprising the family Sphagnaceae, which contains one genus, Sphagnum.
The pale green to deep red plants, up to 30 cm (about 12 inches) tall, form dense clumps around ponds, in swamps and bogs, on moist, acid cliffs, and on lakeshores from tropical to subpolar regions.
any of more than 160 species of plants of the subclass Sphagnidae, of the order Sphagnales, comprising the family Sphagnaceae, which contains one genus, Sphagnum.
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