. The essentials of botany. Botany. 190 BOTANY 397. The archegones are elongated flask-shaped bodies with a swelling base and a long, slender neck. At ma- turity the neck has an open channel from its apex to the. Fia. 106.âj4, several archegones at the apex of a Moss-stem; B, an archegone more enlarged, showing germ-cell at b; C, apex of archegone at maturity; i), a Moss-plant with young spore-fniit; E, the same with mature spore-fruit, show- ing its stalk, s, spore-case, /, and the remains of the old archegone, c (the calyp- tra); â P^ vertical section of the spore-case, showing structure; s,

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. The essentials of botany. Botany. 190 BOTANY 397. The archegones are elongated flask-shaped bodies with a swelling base and a long, slender neck. At ma- turity the neck has an open channel from its apex to the. Fia. 106.âj4, several archegones at the apex of a Moss-stem; B, an archegone more enlarged, showing germ-cell at b; C, apex of archegone at maturity; i), a Moss-plant with young spore-fniit; E, the same with mature spore-fruit, show- ing its stalk, s, spore-case, /, and the remains of the old archegone, c (the calyp- tra); â P^ vertical section of the spore-case, showing structure; s, the spore-hear- ing layer; d, the lid; Q, a ripe spore-case; H, spoi-e-case after the hd nas fallen off, showing the teeth. All magnified. base, where there is a rounded germ-cell (Fig. 106). In some mosses the antherids and archegones are intermixed in the same " flower," but in other oases they occur upon. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt and company, ;

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