. Elementary botany. Botany. GAMETOPHYTE AND SPOROPHYTE. 245 when the fertile leaves are expanding into the sterile ones, proto- nemal outgrowths occur among the aborted sporangia on the leaves of the sporophyte. Similar rudimentary protonemal growths sometimes occur on the leaves of the common brake (pteris) among the sporangia, and some of the rudimentary spo- rangia become changed into the protonema. In some other ferns, as in asplenium(A. filix-fcemina, var. clarissima), prothallia are borne among the aborted sporangia, which bear antheridia and archegonia. In these cases the gametophyte d
. Elementary botany. Botany. GAMETOPHYTE AND SPOROPHYTE. 245 when the fertile leaves are expanding into the sterile ones, proto- nemal outgrowths occur among the aborted sporangia on the leaves of the sporophyte. Similar rudimentary protonemal growths sometimes occur on the leaves of the common brake (pteris) among the sporangia, and some of the rudimentary spo- rangia become changed into the protonema. In some other ferns, as in asplenium(A. filix-fcemina, var. clarissima), prothallia are borne among the aborted sporangia, which bear antheridia and archegonia. In these cases the gametophyte develops from the tissue of the sporophyte without the intervention or necessity of the spores. This is apospory. 478. The sporophyte may develop directly from the tissue of the gametophyte.—In some of the ferns, Pteris cretica for example, the embryo fern sporophyte arises directly from the tissue of the prothallium, without the intervention of sexual organs, and in some cases no sexual organs are de- veloped on such prothallia. Sexual organs, then, and the fusion of the spermato- zoid and egg nucleus are not here necessary for the development of the spo- rophyte. This is apogamy. Apogamy occurs in some other species of ferns, and in other groups of plants as well, though it is in general a rare occurrence except in certain species, where it may be the general rule. 479. Perhaps there is not a fundamental difference between gametophyte and sporophyte.—This development of sporo- phyte, or leafy-stemmed plant of the fern, from the tissue of the gametophyte is taken by some to indicate that there is not such a great difference between the gametophyte and sporophyte of plants as others contend. In accordance with this view it has been. Fig. 323- Apogamy in Pteris 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 ori
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