Leafy Mosses 



HOW A SPORE-CASE IS FORMED 



Upon the leafy part which is known as the moss-plant there 

 soon appear little organs which together are to produce the 

 sporophyte, spore-case, pedicel and foot. 



Plant stripped of 

 leaves to show male 

 t and female 9 

 Fertile branch. branches. 



Tetraplodon mnioides. Monoicous 



in florescence. Fvnaria hygromelrica. Monoicous inflorescence. 



One organ contains an egg-cell and is known as the arche- 

 gonium; the other organ contains the fertilising cells (sperm- 

 cells) and is known as the antheridium. 



The archegonia and antheridia of the Hairy-caps are on 



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