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BOTANY. 



If the lower part of the stem is carefully examined with a 

 lens, we may detect a number of fine green filaments growing 

 from it, looking like the root hairs, except for their color. 

 Sometimes the ground about young patches of the moss is 

 quite covered by a fine film of such threads, and looking care- 



sp. 



FIG. 58. A, fruiting plant of a moss (Funaria), with young sporogonium 

 (sp.), x 4. B, plant with ripe sporogonium. col. calyptra, x 2. C, sporo- 

 gonium with calyptra removed, op. lid, x 4. Z), spores : i, ungerminated ; 

 n-iv, germinating, x 300. E t two teeth from the margin of the capsule, x 50. 

 F, epidermal cells and breathing pore from the surface of the sporogonium, 

 x 150. G, longitudinal section of a young sporogonium, x 12. sp. spore 

 mother cells. H, a small portion of G, magnified about 300 times, sp. spore 

 mother cells. 



fully over it probably very small moss plants may be seen 

 growing up here and there from it. 



This moss is dioecious. The male plants are smaller than the 

 female, and may be recognized by the bright red antheridia 

 which are formed at the end of the stem in considerable num- 

 bers, and surrounded by a circle of leaves so that the whole 



