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MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS 



Diokoits or diaxious, having the male and female organs on 

 separate plants. 



Flowers, often applied to the reproductive organs. 

 Fruit, often applied to the sporophyte. 



Gametophyte or gametophore, that part of the plant which 

 bears the gametes or sexual cells. In mosses all the plant ex- 

 cept the " fruit," or seta and capsule. 



Inflorescence, often applied to 

 the clusters of reproductive organs. 

 Monoicous or moncecious, having 

 male and female organs on the 

 same plant, but separate. 



Oosphere, the egg cell or ovum 



found in the base of the arche- 



gonium. After fertilization, by 



mion witn tne antherozoid, it develops into the sporophyte. 



(Fig 



Paraphyses, joined hyaline hairs 

 growing among the reproductive organs. 

 (Fig. 21.) 



Paroicous, having its male and fe- 

 male organs in the same cluster, but not 

 mixed, the antheridia being in the axils 

 of the perichaetial bracts below the arch- 

 egonia. (Fig. 22.) 



Perichaztium and perigonium, see 

 under topic leaves. 



Pleurocarpous, having the sporo- 

 phyte lateral on a short lateral special 

 branch. (Fig. 23.) Pleurocarpous mosses 

 can usually be recognized by the creeping 

 habit. 



Spermatozoid, see antherozoid. 



Sporophyte or sporophore, the spore-bearing part or genera- 

 tion. In mosses it consists of the seta and capsule and constitutes 

 the so-called fruit. 



Stipitate, having a short stem. Applied to antheridia and 

 archegonia. 



Synoicons or syncecious, having the male and female organs 

 mixed together in the same cluster. (Fig. 21.) 



