Who proposed that the fungi arise from their own spores?

Answer: Option C

P. A. Micheli proposed that fungi arise from their spores.
Pier Antonio Micheli was a noted Italian botanist, professor of botany in Pisa, curator of the Orto Botanico di Firenze, and author of Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita.
He discovered the spores of mushrooms, was a leading authority on cryptogams, and coined several important genera of microfungi including Aspergillus and Botrytis.