ROMANCE OF LOW LIFE AMONGST PLANTS. 



does the entire unicellular spore. Collaterally, it may \ 



be added, that each cell of such a muriformly septate j 



spore as that of Alacrosporium amongst moulds, and 

 Pleospoi'a in the Ascomycetes, is, for all practical ; 



purposes, a germinating spore, and that the so-called \ 



spore is a family, or colony, of spores. In all the 1 



lower cryptogamia, the spores are such an important 

 factor, that all which concerns them collectively must | 



be of interest and importance, sufficient to condone ' 



for a temporary digression. 



