While walking to the post office boxes down the road in my hometown of Springdale NL, I collected some samples to bring home and foldscope, one of which being the leafy part of a moss, the gametophyte. The sample was placed in water squeezed from the moss. In observing the sample using brightfield, the following pictures were obtained. <img class="ql-image" src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/o/post_media%2F5k6WZbVUKUfKnmVnClqozYAwYFy2%2Fnopid%2Fjdszdq8ec1_IMG_7464.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=f9a27acb-44c5-46b7-b3a5-2a373ff48d01"/> <img class="ql-image" src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/o/post_media%2F5k6WZbVUKUfKnmVnClqozYAwYFy2%2Fnopid%2F8gusdtue0q_IMG_7468.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=080e4785-0c09-4584-88e3-153e6faab81a"/> In observing the sample using phase contrast, the following picture was obtained. <img class="ql-image" src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/o/post_media%2F5k6WZbVUKUfKnmVnClqozYAwYFy2%2Fnopid%2Fkkwyerufne_IMG_7469.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=07967848-60a7-4d4f-8a0a-be540d6e3a58"/> I then zoomed into the section where it appeared cells were visible, yielding the following image. <img class="ql-image" src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/o/post_media%2F5k6WZbVUKUfKnmVnClqozYAwYFy2%2Fnopid%2Fof1yj0sew0_IMG_7469%20zoom.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=658d78a7-38d1-485c-ac84-429b6f2c9306"/>

Gametophyte Moss Structure

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