Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 476
water, with its capitulum of leaves bent downwards, the waterwill speedily drop from this until the flask is emptied. The leaf-cells of the SphagnacepB exhibit a very curious departure from theordinary type : for instead of being small and polygonal, they arelarge and elongated (Fig. 225) ; they… … freely communicate with one another, as is sometimes curiouslyevidenced by the passage of Wheel-Animalcules that make theirhabitation in these chambers. Be-tween these coarsely-spiral cellsare some thick-walled narrow elon-gated cells, containing chlorophyll;these, which give to the leaf…
Microscopy · Biology
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