Lectures on the physiology of plants . n with another Moss, Funaria hygromdrica, already mentioned previously,which occurs very frequently in dense clumi)s on grass-plots, in woods, &c., and isconspicuous even to the non-botanical obs^erver by means of the very numerous andlong-stalked bright orange-red fruits. The plantlels themselves are small, oiiI\- a few 736 LECTURE XL7. millimeters high, the stems being furnished with only a dozen or so of leaves. Thestem bears at its apex groups of sexual organs, and these groups may almost bespoken of as flowers. The smaller specimens are male, and pro
Lectures on the physiology of plants . n with another Moss, Funaria hygromdrica, already mentioned previously,which occurs very frequently in dense clumi)s on grass-plots, in woods, &c., and isconspicuous even to the non-botanical obs^erver by means of the very numerous andlong-stalked bright orange-red fruits. The plantlels themselves are small, oiiI\- a few 736 LECTURE XL7. millimeters high, the stems being furnished with only a dozen or so of leaves. Thestem bears at its apex groups of sexual organs, and these groups may almost bespoken of as flowers. The smaller specimens are male, and produce exclusivelyantheridia, which stand crowded together in large numbers within a rosette of leavessurrounding them like a perianth. The female plantlets are larger and bear at theapex of the stem a dozen archegonia, whicli are surrounded by a more bud-likeand closed perigone. It has already been pointed out that the archegonia of the Moss and also ofthe Vascular Cryptogams are fundamentally essentially the same as the oogonia of.
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