1935 E. N. da C. Andrade & J. Huxley vii. 254 Eventually a new fern-plant of the same sort is formed again, not a moss-plant or even a fern of a different kind.
1946 A. Nelson xxvii. 536 The moss plant is the gametophyte, the sporophyte is a small, stalked capsule parasitic on the gametophyte.