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The fertilizing cell, its varying form and behavior by Nelly Peery, 1890

The fertilizing cell, its varying form and behavior by Nelly Peery, 1890, Page 53

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51. Through this neck the spermatozoid makes its way, to fertilize the cell ready for it. The long neck now withers away, the stalk lengthens out, bearing the receptacle aloft, so that the spores may be more easily scattered. The sporogonium is now a rounded body containing numerous spores and elaters, whose office is to scatter the spores. In Polytrichum
 
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