LIFE STORY OF FERNS paayed 
does the fern plant have seeds. It will be interesting 
to know, then, how new fern plants are formed. 
How new fern plants are formed. We have already 

Fic. 251. Little spleenwort fern. 
learned that most ferns bear “fruit dots” or limes on 
the underside of certain leaves. We also know that 
many tiny spores are in the rounded spore cases which 
are packed together to form the fruit dots. When 
