The plant babies of flowerless plants come from spores, not seeds.
Did you ever gather Christmas ferns? They are the ones which cheer you so with their beautiful green color in the woods when so many other things are asleep in winter.
On the back of the fern leaves, perhaps you have noticed little brown rusty-looking spots.
In these spots or spore-cases are the spores. When the spore cases are ripe, they burst open and throw out the spores which look like a fine dust.
Each grain of this dust must live in a moist, warm place, and pass through several changes before a baby fern can grow.
Mosses grow in a similar way. So, also, do—
Mushrooms or Toad Stools
Mushrooms are flowerless plants, and they do not grow from seeds, but from spores.
The spores fall from the pretty gills on the under side of the umbrella part of the plant.
Of course, since they have no green color, you know that mushrooms do not make their own food. They, like most other—