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Fontinalis antipyretica, [2] greater water-moss, [3] or common water moss, is a species of submerged aquatic moss belonging to the subclass Bryidae. It is found in both still and flowing freshwater in Europe, Asia, Greenland and Africa. In North America it is found in most Canadian provinces with a seaboard and most US states except the most ...
Tardigrades (/ ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ ɡ r eɪ d z / ⓘ), [1] known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, [2] are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ' little water bear ' .
Fontinalis is a genus of submerged aquatic mosses belonging to the subclass Bryidae.These mosses are also called willow moss, fountain moss, brook moss and water moss.The genus is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere and includes both species that occur in still water and in flowing water.
Carcinogenic to humans and animals such as mice, rats, horses, and cattle when ingested. The carcinogenic compound is ptaquiloside or PTQ, which can leach from the plant into the water supply, which may explain an increase in the incidence of gastric and oesophageal cancers in humans in bracken-rich areas. [184] Pulsatilla cernua
Surface and ground water stagnation; Trapped water stagnation. The water may be trapped in human artifacts (discarded cans, plant pots, tires, dug-outs, roofs, etc.), as well as in natural containers, such as hollow tree trunks, leaf sheaths, etc. To avoid ground and surface water stagnation, the drainage of surface and subsoil is advised.
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Chloroplasts (green discs) and accumulated starch granules in cells of Bryum capillare. Botanically, mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are usually small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.
No water can be used. This is standard action for battery fires," according to an update from the Monterey County Emergency Operations Center. "Just fire," Moss Landing resident Joel Bera told CBS ...