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PLANT LIFE. 



The most highly developed simple ovary (the carpogonium) 

 occurs in the red algae, in which it is often differentiated into 

 the ovary proper (which does not always form a distinct egg) 

 and a long branch, the receptive apparatus, or trichogyne, 

 to which the sperm adheres and through which its nucleus 



FIG. 327. 



FIG. 328. 



FIG. 329. 



FIG. 327. Ovary of bladder wrack (Fieci/s resiculosHs), with some of the hairs. The 

 ovary is raised on a stalk cell ; it contains 8 eggs, of which 6 are shown. Magnified 

 160 diam. After Thuret. 



FIG. 328. The ovary of a red alga (Wemalion multifidmn}. A, in process of ferti- 

 lization, no, egg nucleus (a dark chromoplast lying near); sp, sperm which has ad- 

 hered to the trichogyne t and caused the absorption of the wall there ; ns, the sperm 

 nucleus on the way down the trichogyne. B, a later stage, no and ns about to unite. 

 Magnified about 600 diam. After Wille. 



FIG. 329. A branch of a red seaweed (Polysipkonia opaca) bearing cystocarps (the 

 black dots). See fig. 330. Natural size. After Kiitzing. 



travels to the ovary proper (fig. 328). The result of fertiliza- 

 tion is the production, often by a very complicated process 

 of growth, of a spore-producing body, the cystocarp (figs. 

 329, 330). The cystocarp is, in part, the homologue of the 

 sporophyte phase of higher plants. From its interior non- 



