Question

How do you observe moss plant through hand lens or dissection microscope? Draw the diagram and write the characteristics of moss plants.

Answer 1

• Collect mosses from the greenish velvety growth on bricks during rainy season. 
• Scrap a bit of the greenish velvety over a slide and observe under a dissection microscope.

Observations :

1. The structure that are seen in moss plants are not flowers but they are spores. 

2. Spores are formed in Sporangium. 

3. Spores contain very little amount of food.