Muscales

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Muscales \Mus*ca"les\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. muscus moss.] (Bot.)
     An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the
     true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna.
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