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Fig. 2.—A myxomycete or slime mold (Fuigo septica) in the plasmodium stage; a mass of protoplasm without cell wall.
This plasmodium grew on moist decaying wood in a glass jar and was photographed after it had “crawled up” the inner surface of the jar in the manner of the microscopic animal Amoeba. Its color was bright orange.
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Fig 5.—Plants of the cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), showing foliage leaves and (in the center) spore-bearing leaves.
Note that here the leafy plant is spore-bearing (the sporophyte), whereas in the moss (Fig. 4) the leafy plant is egg-bearing and sperm-bearing.
Reproduced, by permission, from Gager’s Fundamentals of Botany, published by P. Blakiston’s Sons & Co.