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capsule and calyptra is known as the sporophyte (Fig. 2, £). 

 The capsule contains minute bodies, the spores. 



What is the life-history of a moss plant? Let us take a capsule 



F:g. I. A, spore; B, germinating spore; C, protonema; D, bud. All much mag- 

 nified. 



and with a pair of forceps gently lift off the calyptra. We shall 

 find that the capsule is covered by a lid called the operculum 



