LIFE HISTORY OP A LIVERWORT 



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In the first two and last of these orders the plant body is a 

 thallus, either closely resembling the prothallus of the 

 ferns, or freely branching. In the third order the plant 



Fig. 154. — A leafy liverwort {fordla namcularis). Male plant, about 

 natural size. (After M. A. Howe.) 



body is leafy (foliose), and in this respect somewhat re- 

 sembles certain true mosses, for which it is often mis- 

 taken (Figs. 154 and 155). In the first two and last orders 

 the thallus always shows dorso-ventral differentiation. 



