The fruit does not dehisce in the regular way, but the spores
are liberated by decay. They are small Mosses which remain
in connection with their protonema until the sporangium is
mature. The archegonium remains sessile at the base of the
short capsule-stalk, and is not raised into the air (compare
Hepaticæ).--_Phascum, Ephemerum, Archidium, Pleuridium._