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VI. THE "FRUIT" OF FERNS, MOSSES, ETC. 



347. The term "fruit" is often applied in a general or popular 

 sense to the groups of spore-producing bodies of ferns (fruit-dots, 

 or sori), to the spore capsules of mosses and liverworts, and also 

 to the fruit-bodies, or spore-bearing parts, of the fungi and algae. 



