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THE BRYALES 



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of their structure may be made out without cHfficulty. The 

 first division separates a basal cell from a terminal cell, which 

 is the mother cell of the archegonium. In the latter three walls 



now arise, as in the Hepaticae and Andrccca, but in Funaria 

 these do not all reach to the basal wall, but intersect at some 

 distance above it, so that they enclose a tetrahedral cell, pointed 



