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Table VI 



THE GREAT GROUPS OF THE KINGDOM OF PLANTS 

 Main Groxjps of Non-vascular Plants 

 Plants without "flowers" — Crvptogams (Nos. 1-5) 

 Plant body usually a Ihallus; sexual organs usually one 



celled Thallophytes i 



No archegonia 



Chlorophyll-bearing Algig 10 



Non-chlorophyll bearing Fungi ib 



Plant body thalloid or leafy; sexual organs usually several 



celled Bryophytes 2 



Archegonia 

 Protonema rudimentary or wanting, 



sporophytes with elaters Liverworts 2a 



Protonema well defined, 



sporophytes without elaters Mosses 26 



1. Thallopliytes 



10. Alga 



Cyanophyceae (Blue-green) Phaeophyceas (Brown) 

 Chlorophycese (Green) Rhodophyceae (Red) 



lb. Fungi 



Myxomycetes (Slime-molds) Basidiomycetes (Spores on stalks) 

 Schizomycetes (Bacteria) Including the Basidiolichenes 



Phycomycetes (Molds) Fungi imperfecti (Life histories 



Ascomycetes (Spores in sacs) imperfectly known). 

 Including most lichens 

 (Ascolichenes) 



2-66, Arckegoniales; 2-6c, Embryophyla 



2. Bryophytes 



20. Liverworts 



Ricciales Jungfermanniales 



Marchantiales Anthocerotales 



26. Mosses 



Spagnales (Peat mosses) Bryales (True mosses) 



Andreaeales (Black mosses) 



Main Groups of Vascular Plants 

 Woody cylinder continuous, {i.e., without foliar gaps), 

 leaves small, sporangia above— Lycopsida 



