The Position of Hepatics and Mosses 



The hepatics and mosses are therefore classified between 

 the lov/est group of plant life (Thallophytes), bacteria, algae, 



without stem, 

 roots, arid the 



Veil 



.Veil 



Hepatic sporophyte. The asexual generation. 



fungi, etc., 



leaves, and 



spore-bearing plants which 



have well-developed stems, 



leaves and roots, such as ferns, 



horse-tails, and lycopodiums, 



(Pteridophytes}. 



The genus Riccia has no 

 foot and no pedicel, simply a 



SpOTe C3S6. 



Funaria hygrometrica. A cross-section 

 from the pedicel of the sporophyte. The 

 cells through the centre of the pedicel are 

 modified to form rudimentary fibre-vascular 

 bundles, which one may interpret as fore- 

 shadowing the true fibro- vascular bundles 

 found in the sporophyte of ferns, etc. 



Equisetum sylvaticum with fertile 

 cone and whorls of branches. 



Male prothallium of a horse-tail with 

 antheridia. Sexual generation. 



