22 8 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



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



P'lG. 201. — Section o{ Pel I la epiphvUa 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. 

 lobe ; R, 

 layer ; C 

 spores. (Evans' " Intermediate Botany".) 



202.~/V///(7 cpiphylla. A liverwort with iiiipergate sporangia. T, 

 rhizoids ; F, fruits enclosed in calyptra ; C, central slightlv thicker 

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



The egg-<t;ll pockets, archegonia, usually borne on 



