Plate from 18th century encyclopedia showing genera of mosses including: byssi,confervae,tremellae,usneae,coralloides,lichenoides,mnium and sphagnum. Botanically,mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest sunlight to create food by photosynthesis. They differ from vascular plants in lacking water-bearing xylem tracheids or vessels. Mosses reproduce using spores,not seeds and have no flowers | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Parker, David |
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