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just detect in the tops of some of the stalks little bodies, sur- 



FIG. 20i. Section of Pellia epiphvlla through an involucre. R, rhizoids ; 

 T, I, involucre ; AA, developing archegonia (magnified). (From Evans' ' Inter- 

 mediate Text Book of Botany .) 



rounded by a rosette ot leaves. These correspond to the 

 antheridia of the liverwort. 



FIG. 202. Pellia epiphylla. A liverwort with impergate sporangia. T, 

 lobe ; R, rhizoids ; F, fruits enclosed in calyptra ; C, central slightly thicker 

 layer ; C, C, capsules ; V, capsule open ; CF, collapse of seta after dispersal of 

 spores. (Evans* " Intermediate Botany".) 



The egg-cell pockets, archegonia, usually borne on 



