Fog
Appearance
Fog | |
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Clumps o fog on the grun an base o trees in theAllegheny Naitional Forest,Pennsylvanie, Unitit States | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
Clade: | Embryophytes |
Diveesion: | Bryophyta Schimp.sensu stricto |
Clesses[2] | |
Synonyms | |
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Fog,kent forbye as moss, is sindry wee, saft plaunts that's 1–10 cm (0.4–4 in) lang for ordinar, tho some species is mair muckle. Thay growe for ordinar near thegither in wee busses or basses in dunk, urie or shady airts. Thay dinnae hae flouers or seeds, an thair aefauld leafs kivers the shilpie stalks. At certain times fog brings furth spore cods thit micht kythe as beak-like cods hoven alaft on shilpie stalks.
Fogs is aften mistaen forcrottle,a kynd ofungusthit bides simbiotically wialgaeorcyanobacteria,acause thair appearance is similar.
Evolution
[eedit|eedit soorce]Fog isnae weel kent in thefossilrecord acause thir cell waas is sae saft. Definite fossils o earlie fogs is kent frae thePermianperiod, wi som fossils thocht tae be fogs frae theCarboniferous[3].
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑Hubers, M.; Kerp, H. (2012). "Oldest known mosses discovered in Mississippian (late Visean) strata of Germany".Geology.40(8): 755–758.doi:10.1130/G33122.1.
- ↑Goffinet, Bernard; William R. Buck (2004).Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification.Monographs in Systematic Botany.Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes.98.Missouri Botanical Garden Press. pp. 205–239.ISBN978-1-930723-38-2.
- ↑Thomas, B.A. (1972). "A probable moss from the Lower Carboniferous of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire".Annals of Botany.36(1): 155–161. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a084568. ISSN 1095-8290. JSTOR 42752024.