. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. Fio. 353.—Cord-moss. ^4, tip of a ffnialc pametophytL' cut to show the female jiametaiigia (archrgonia) surrovinded ])y (b), ^,". B, an arehegoiiium showing the swollen lower jjart {b) con- taining an unfertilized egg-cell, th(}, cut \-ei-tically, h, being the neck, ^y-. B, (\ more ad- vanced stages in the dc\-hyte (0 co"\'ered )iy the old archegoniuni or calyptra (c) u]>on wliicli the ne(4< (ft) .still remains, 5/-. (Sachs.) to manufacture a large part of its own food while
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. Fio. 353.—Cord-moss. ^4, tip of a ffnialc pametophytL' cut to show the female jiametaiigia (archrgonia) surrovinded ])y (b), ^,". B, an arehegoiiium showing the swollen lower jjart {b) con- taining an unfertilized egg-cell, th(}, cut \-ei-tically, h, being the neck, ^y-. B, (\ more ad- vanced stages in the dc\-hyte (0 co"\'ered )iy the old archegoniuni or calyptra (c) u]>on wliicli the ne(4< (ft) .still remains, 5/-. (Sachs.) to manufacture a large part of its own food while the latter is like the sporophytes of Riccia and I\'Iarchantia in being entirely para- sitic upon the gametophyte. Inorganic materials absorbed"by the slender pseudo-roots of the gametophyte are supplied to the foot of the stalk and thence conducted to the photosynthetic tissue of the capsule. Conduction take places mainly through a ccntrnl. 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 Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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