FUNGI HAVE NO FLOWERS 
caying vegetation. Wherever a fruit packer breaks the 
air-tight skin of an apple, spores get in, fungi grow, and 
decay begins. 
The development from low forms of plants like slime 
molds to seaweed, mosses, and finally to ferns, which are 
the highest form of non-flowering plants, is most interest¬ 
ing. There is much surmise as to the ladder these plants 
climbed in their development. They grew to differ in 
different surroundings, just as lowland plants differ from 
those up on the mountain side. At any rate, their devel¬ 
opment presents an interesting contrast to that of other 
plants that have learned to bear flowers and seed. 
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