THE MOSS WORLD. 
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TABLE OF THE FAMILIES OF MOSSES. 
Subclass . — SPHA GNIN2E. 
Fam. 1.— Sphagnaceje. 
Subclass. — BRYINAU. 
Order 1.— SCHISTOCARPI. 
Fam. 2. — Aa t dre.eace,e. 
Order 2.— STEGOCARPI. 
Division 1 . — Elasmodontes. 
Fam. 3. — Georgiacebe. 
Division 2. — Nematodontes. 
Fam. 4. — Buxbatjmiace^. 
„ 5. — POLYTRICHACEBS. 
Division 3. — Arthrodontes. 
Subdivision 1. — Acrocarpici. 
Fam. 6 . — Dicraxa ce^j 
„ 7. — Letjcobryace^: 
„ 8. — Trichostomace^: 
f „ 9. — CALYMPERACEB3 
„ 10. — Grimmiace^: 
„ 11. — Ortrotrichace^: 
„ 12. — Splachnacejb 
Fam. 13. — Fuxariace^ 
„ 14. — Bryace^ 
„ 15. — MxrACEBS 
„ 16 . — Bartramiace^ 
„ 17. — Schistostegacebs 
., 18. — FISSIDENTACE.2B. 
Subdivision 2. 
*Fam. 19. — Hypopterygiacebe 
* „ 20. — Rhacopilacebe 
„ 21. — Hookeriace^ 
„ 22. — FONTINALACEiE 
-Pleurocarpici. 
Fam. 23. — Neckerace^: 
* „ 24. — EroPODIACEBE 
„ 25. — Leskeace^: 
„ 26. — Hypxacebe. 
It will be seen that the Cleistocarpi or closed-fruited mosses 
are omitted, for the only point in common which they possessed 
was the absence of a separable operculum, yet Schimper, in his 
“Synopsis,” keeps up for them three families and eleven 
genera; a twelfth genus, Systegium, comprising Phascum 
crispum and multicapsulare which have a distinct lid though 
it does not come off, he removes to the stegocarpous section, 
and to the vicinity of W eisia, from which indeed it is insepar- 
able in any natural arrangement. The most lowly organised 
are the species of Ephemerum, the babies of the moss world, so 
Not European. 
