. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 126 PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY. ters, the Great Creator is able to produce all the countless A'a- rieties of plants which clothe and beautify the earth, 380. Contents of the cell. Some cells contain air only. Others are filled with solid matter ; but the greater part contain both fluids and solids. There is the cytohlast, a globitlar atom, ea
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 126 PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY. ters, the Great Creator is able to produce all the countless A'a- rieties of plants which clothe and beautify the earth, 380. Contents of the cell. Some cells contain air only. Others are filled with solid matter ; but the greater part contain both fluids and solids. There is the cytohlast, a globitlar atom, earnest of new cells ; andpro^op^as;??, the nourishing semi-fluid, both of the same material as the primordial utricle, and with it, and the fluid cell-sap, ever flowing^ acting, combining, and pro- ducing either new cells or jDroducts like the following : 4S1 4S2 480 479 478 477 37G 473. 471, Ceils—a, of the pulp of Snow-bcrrv, sliowins the nucleus; b, of the parenchyma of the leaf nf Pink, showing the granules of Chlorophylle. 472, Cell of a Cactus, soaked in Alcohol, the primordial utricle separated and contracted. 473, Cell of pleurenchyma of Pine, dotted. 474, Sketch to illustrato the nature of those dots—«, dot seen in front; 6, a side view of the same. 475, Tiachencliynia. a spiral cell from the sporange of Equisetum. 476, Spiral vessel of the Melon, siniile thread; 477, of the Elder, 4 threads. 478, Annular duct, distended by rings instead of a coil. 479, Sc.'xlanform vessels, from Os- munda (Fern). 480, A dotted dnct from Gymnoch'.dus (Coffee-tree). 481, ^plral vessels apparently branched. 482, Branching spirals in the (Jourd. 381. Chlorophyll^ the green coloring matter of leaves, con- sists of green corpuscles floating in the colorless sap or attached to the colorless wall. In the Indigo plant these corpuscles arc blue, and constitute that poisonous drug. But the coloring flat- ter which gives to fruits and flowers their bright and varying tints of yellow, red, and
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