. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. THE STORY OF THE PLANTS. with transparent walls, and no colouring matter (Fig. 1). These cells are full of water; they form a sort of water-cushion on the top of the leaf, which drinks in carbjnic acid (or, to be quite correct, its floating form, carbon dioxide) from the air about it. Immediately below this cushion of water-cells you come again upon a QQaaoapgrDar. *\C3CDCpO\pCDC3ClOn}C}Q FIG. 1.—A THIN SLICE FROM A LEAF, SEEN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. On top Ere water-cells, which suck in carbonic acid. Beneath these are green cells, which assimilate i
. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. THE STORY OF THE PLANTS. with transparent walls, and no colouring matter (Fig. 1). These cells are full of water; they form a sort of water-cushion on the top of the leaf, which drinks in carbjnic acid (or, to be quite correct, its floating form, carbon dioxide) from the air about it. Immediately below this cushion of water-cells you come again upon a QQaaoapgrDar. *\C3CDCpO\pCDC3ClOn}C}Q FIG. 1.—A THIN SLICE FROM A LEAF, SEEN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. On top Ere water-cells, which suck in carbonic acid. Beneath these are green cells, which assimilate it under the influence of sunlight. The sijongy lower portion is used for evaporation. firm layer of closely-packed green cells, filled with living green-stuff, which take the carbonic acid in turn from the water-cells, and manufacture it forthwith into sugars, starches, and other materials of living bodies. The lowest spongy part evaporates unnecessary water, and so helps to keep up Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : Hodder and Stoughton
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