THE GREAT GROUPS OF BRYOPHYTES 



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cells more or less modified for conduction. Above these 

 the dorsal region is organized into a series of large air cham- 

 bers, into which project chlorophyll-containing cells in the 



FIG. 97. Marchantia polymorpha, a common liverwort : 1. thallns. with rhizoide, 

 bearing a mature archegonial branch (/) and several younger ones (a, b, c, d, e)\ 

 2 and 3, dorsal and ventral views of arcliegonial disk; A and 5, young sporophyte 

 (sporogonium) embryos; 6. more mature sporogonium still within enlarged venter 

 of archegoninm; 7, mature sporogonium discharging spores; 8, three spores and 

 an elater. After KNY. 



form of short branching filaments. Overarching the air 

 chambers is the dorsal epidermis, and piercing through it 

 into each air chamber is a conspicuous air pore (Fig. 94, B}. 



