A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures (1848)
Quekett, John, 1815-1861 · London, H. Bailliere · leaf 384
osite side. The main tube, as shown in fig. 223,is covered throughout its entire length with eighteen smallertubes, and is coated very thickly in some parts with carbonateof lime, which renders the stem both opaque and very brittle.Belonging to the same family as the Chara is a genus termedNitella,… … Fig. 222. Fig. 223. rent glassy tube of a delicate green colour, with transversejoints. In these the circulation can be viewed without anypreparation, but in the Chara vulgaris the stem will oftenrequire to be freed from its carbonate of lime before any traceof it will be visible. A portion of the…
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