Animal and vegetable physiology, considered with reference to natural theology, by Peter Mark Roget .. . ethermore closely, composing by their union a speciesof vegetable cellular tissue, which may be re-garded as the basis or essential component ma-terial of every organ in the plant. This cellularstructure is represented in figures 4 and 5, as itappears in the Fncus vesiculosus; the first beinga horizontal, and the second a vertical sectionof that plant, t The size of these cells differsconsiderably in different instances. Kieser statesthat the diameter of each individual cell variesfrom the
Animal and vegetable physiology, considered with reference to natural theology, by Peter Mark Roget .. . ethermore closely, composing by their union a speciesof vegetable cellular tissue, which may be re-garded as the basis or essential component ma-terial of every organ in the plant. This cellularstructure is represented in figures 4 and 5, as itappears in the Fncus vesiculosus; the first beinga horizontal, and the second a vertical sectionof that plant, t The size of these cells differsconsiderably in different instances. Kieser statesthat the diameter of each individual cell variesfrom the 330th to the 55th part of an inch; so * These cells are well represented in the engravings whichillustrate Mr. Slacks memoir on the elementary tissue of plants,contained in the 49th volume of the Transactions of the Societyof Arts. f De Candolle, Organographie Vegetate. VEGETABLE ORGANIZATION. m that from 3,000 to 100,000 cells would becon-tained in an extent of surface equal to a squareinch. But they are occasionally met with of dif-ferent sizes, from even the 1000th part of aninch to the 30th, 3 8.
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