0.6 Classification of mossesThe classification of mosses turns out to be quite difficult. But the step is straightforward, the division in 3 classes:
Anthoceratophyta, the hornworts.
Marchantophyta, the liverworts.
Bryophyta, the mosses or real mosses.
This division fits well into the 3
Classes according to the
Plant theory. The mosses are the 3th phylum of the Plant kingdom, so they have 3 classes, which is already present in
Wonderful plants:
3-310.00.00: Anthoceratophyta, connected to the
Hydrogen series.
3-320.00.00: Marchantophyta, connected to the
Carbon series.
3-330.00.00:
Bryophyta, connected to the
Silicon series.
The further division into Subclasses, Orders and Families turned out to be a hard problem. The classifications from botany are very imbalanced. There are many families with just 1 genus or a few genera. In contrast there are families with hundreds of genera. The same imbalance one finds in Orders: many have only one family and the biggest orders Jungermanniales and
Hypnales have about 30 to 40 families. This does not fit the division in 7 clades. Above that, Subclasses are not really present in the botanical classification.
Beside of that it has turned out that a lot of the classification is incorrect according to DNA analysis. Although DNA analysis is not always correct, it gives often good classification information. Tis showed that many families and orders have to be split and many genera have to transferred to other families. An extreme example is the family
Hypnaceae, which was the biggest family with about 150 genera. It turned that all genera are going to many different families. Basically the family has stopped to exist. It seemed to have been a kind of “garbage” family, as family where all not easily place d genera went in. This is similar to the Scrophulariacaeea, which turned out to be a mixture of Scrophulariacaeea,
Plantaginaceae,
Orobanchaceae and a few other small families.
A second problem is the lack of botanical information about mosses, how and where they grow and live. In general it is hard to find botanical information about mosses. This fits with the quality off mosses to be overseen easily. They are small, and look not very interesting. They are not favoured by botanists in general.
And then there is the problem of the homeopathic information.
Provings and also sense provings are not fully reliable. They contain noise. This is unavoidable as has been stated in the chapter on provings. Also the information from the analysis of the provings, the
Phases and
Stages are not fully reliable. For instance 3 mosses coming from the same family could have different
Phases, whereas they should have the same Phase according to the
Plant theory. Of course it could turn out that some of them should be transferred to other families or a split family when the DNA information is correct. So the the classification had to be done with many uncertainties. Another example of the imbalance in the provings is that very often
Phase 7 came out the analysis. But it came out much more than to be expected and also much more that could be fitted into a reasonable classification. Probably this
Phase 7 quality came out form a misinterpretation of the traumas, too often to be seen as the destruction of
Phase 7.
Fortunately we also had some good cases to work with. They are also presented in this book. But also here it is not easy to substract the
Phases and
Stages form the case. The interpretation of the information can be hard. But the cases always show definite aspects of the remedy, so they used to fix the classification as far as possible.
The result of this work is shown in the text of this book. Each remedy is presented with the Remedy code and the order of the remedies and families is according to the Remedy code. Its is good to realise that part of the information, provings and classification will be incorrect. It has be be adjusted later on with new information and research coming. You are invited to give feedback so that the knowledge of the mosses will increase in time.