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traced progressing from cell to cell. The Coal Measure 

 petrifactions yield no trace of Mosses, but there are 

 impressions of these plants in strata of later age. Re- 

 mains of Liverworts are scanty, and such as have been 

 found, the most common being called Marchantites, 

 throw no light on evolutionary problems. 



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