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Definition of Genus Sphagnum

1. Noun. A large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sphagnum

Literary usage of Genus Sphagnum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1844)
"Note on the genus Sphagnum. The genus Sphagnum, which occupies such an important position in the economy of Nature, does not latterly appear to have ..."

2. The Nature Library by Doubleday, Page & Co., Firm, Publ (1907)
"... Bazzania 150 Ba^ania trilobata 106 PART IV LEAFY-MOSSES genus Sphagnum 109 The method by which Peat-mosses encroach upon water to form land 109 The pale ..."

3. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... Warming's term for a Sphagnum boa ; sphag'nous, resembling or allied to the genus Sphagnum. ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"There is but one family, containing the single genus Sphagnum. Peat Mosses are much used by gardeners for "packing," on account of their power of retaining ..."

5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"Wetensch. Kring Antwerp.) 12: 39-43. 1920.—The author comments on the polymorphism of the genus Sphagnum and discusses 21 varieties, forms, ..."

6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1914)
"Twenty-five species (not to mention varieties and forms) of the genus Sphagnum have been listed from Alaska so far as the writer has been able to consult ..."

7. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"It is certain, as previously stated, that in Europe mosses belonging to the genus Sphagnum contribute very largely, and sometimes almost exclusively, ..."

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