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adj. - Of or relating to the flask-shaped female sex organ in mosses and ferns and some gymnosperms

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  • The archegonial groups occupy the apices of short branches (fig. 13, A.).
  • A. Longitudinal section of the very young sporogonium (f, f ') enclosed in the archegonial wall (b, h).
  • The same holds even more obviously for the grouping of the stegocarpous forms into those in which the archegonial group terminates
  • Further stages of the development of the sporogonium (f) enclosed in the calyptra formed from the archegonial wall (c) and still bearing the neck (h).
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