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club mossAny of a group of mosslike plants that do not produce seeds but reproduce by spores. They are related to the ferns and horsetails. (Order Lycopodiales, family Pteridophyta.) These plants have a wide distribution, but were far more numerous in Palaeozoic times, especially the Carboniferous period (363–290 million years ago), when members of the group were large trees. The species that exist now are all small in size.
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| Over that same period, the concentration of an ultraviolet-absorbing pigment in the spores of a particular club moss has more than tripled. The first model, on view at NORCAT, is constructed of metal framing and sheet metal which is matted on three sides with vegetation common to the Sudbury area including club moss, bog laurel, native grasses, cedar and tamarack. Huperzine A is a plant alkaloid derived from the Chinese club moss plant. |
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