collegium musicum. a group of usually amateur musicians, often connected with a university, who meet to study and perform chiefly old or little-known music.
Spores and Sporangium. Ferns differ from flowering plants and trees because they do not produce seeds. Instead, ferns reproduce using spores. The sporangium is the structure responsible for producing and releasing spores. Sporangium form in many different ways, sometimes appearing as brown fruitdots on the undersides of leaves. Others grow as slender stalks up from the plant. When the sporangia burst, the wind carries spores to new ground, where they form reproductive structures that, if fertilized, will grow into a new fern.
The gametophyte is the gamete-producing plant that produces male reproductive structures called antheridia, which produce sperm, and female reproductive structures called archegonia, which produce eggs. When a sperm cell fertilizes an egg inside the archegonium, a diploid zygote is formed.s the spore germinates, it develops into a thin, filamentous stage called a protonema. As the protonema grows, it develops into a mature gametophyte with root-like rhizoids that anchor the plant and an erect, stem-like structure with whorls of leaf-like photosynthetic tissues.