From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Oct 30 08:32:44 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 30 Oct 2001 16:32:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 95367 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2001 16:32:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Oct 2001 16:32:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2001 16:32:41 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05562; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:33:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BDED5CA.9000904@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:31:06 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evgueni Sklyanin Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Moss and lichen References: <9rmhkp+m7b7@eGroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Lojbab wrote: >>At least in older classifications (not sure of the current >>biology), while a lichen was a symbiont, it was a symbiont that was >>considered to be in the plant kingdom rather than the animal kingdom. I believe the latest thinking is that the alga does not benefit from the presence of the fungus, and as such lichens are really just algae with fungus parasites. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel