1. In the last group, rhizoids of compatible strains meet and fuse. 2. Mosses do not absorb water or nutrients from their substrate through their rhizoids . 3. Rhizoids do not have nuclei while a rhizomycelium can.4. Sporangiophores arise among distinctive, root-like rhizoids . 5. The prostrate stems have bulges from which rhizoids form. 6. Thalli are coenocytic and usually form no true mycelium ( having rhizoids instead ). 7. Microscopic free-floating species, however, do not have rhizoids at all. 8. Their rhizoids penetrate soil among the crevices, secrete acids and corrode the rocks. 9. The rhizoids present in this species are sessile leaves having a clearly distinguishable midrib. 10. Both nuclei migrate out of the zoosporangium and into the conjoined rhizoids where they fuse.