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previously studied. Except for the sterile wall-cells, all 

 the cells formed by the successive divisions of the oopserm 



Fig. 169. — Ricciocarpus. sp, sporogonium; gam, tissue of gametophyte. 



Fig. 170. — ^Life cycle of Ricciocarpus. (After Cardiff.) 



become spore-mother-cells, each of which, by the tetrad- 

 division, gives rise to four spores. Meanwhile the wall- 



