The microscope : being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition / by L. Lane Clarke.

  • Louisa Lane Clarke
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The microscope : being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition / by L. Lane Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ON THE USE OF THE MICROSCOPE. Directions for Mounting Objects 4 „ „ Mounting in Balsam 5 PAET I. OBJECTS FROM THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. CHAPTER I. Shapes of Cells—Cell contents—Oil Cells—Hairs of plants—Cuti- cle and Stomata— Cuticle of Yucca, of Aloe, of Deutzia Scabra, of Amaryllis—Indian Corn—Cuticle of Saccalobium, of Elaeagnus, of Tillandsia, of Onosma, of Opuntia 7 Raphides.—Cuticle of Hyacinth—Raphides from Rhubarb— Anagallis—Spiral fibre—Spiral Cells of Oncidium—Spiral Vessels of Collomia—Spiral Cells of Balsam—Spiral Cells of Sphagnum—Scalariform Vessels 16 Pollen.—Pollen of Mallow, of Hollyhock, of Passion-flower, of (Enothera—A Few Words more on the Pollen—Pollen-tubes — Stamens 20 Seeds.—Poppy—Sweet-William—Silene, or Stellaria—Orchis— Eccremocarpus or Calampelis 24 CHAPTER II. SECTIONS OF WOOD. Ruscus—Whanghae Cane—Asparagus—Section of Hazel, of Pine, of Yew—Cedar of Lebanon—Vegetable Ivory—Fossil Coni- ferous Wood—Pine Wood—Section of Cocoa-nut, of Cob-nut, of Snake-wood 26 Moss.—Slides of Dicranum, Funaria, &c., &c.—Spore-cases of Fern—Elaters of Equisetum—Elaters of Jungermannia— Jungermannia Bidentata 29