Alright, time for some of those promised pretty pictures. Observations of the Polka Dot mutant and wildtype gametophytes of the aquatic C. ferns. These grew into a handful of little plants still developing in a coke bottle terrarium. As I am very fond of my photos please do not copy and paste them and call them your own. Cool. Thanks.
At the top is a hermaphroditic gametophyte. It is a polka dot mutant because the chloroplasts can clearly be seen clumping around the edges of the cells giving them a silvery, clear appearance.
In the middle is a close up of a mutant. The individual cells are more easily seen. The green dots around their edges are the chloroplasts.
At the bottom are two wild type gametophytes. A male gametophyte covered in antheridia is on the left. On the right is the larger hermaphrodite with both antheridia and archegonia.
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