. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Plants. tions of what is taken in dissolved in the water absorbed, but others must be the result of some elaboration in the plant. Some plants have hardly any ; others abound in them, especially in the foliage and bark. In Locust- bark almost every cell holds a crystal; so that in a square inch not thicker than writing-paper there may be over a million and a half of them. When Fig. 462. Some magnified Btarch-grains, in two cells of a potato. 463. Some cells of tin- albumen r floury pari of Indian Corn, filled with starch-grains. Fig. 464.
. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Plants. tions of what is taken in dissolved in the water absorbed, but others must be the result of some elaboration in the plant. Some plants have hardly any ; others abound in them, especially in the foliage and bark. In Locust- bark almost every cell holds a crystal; so that in a square inch not thicker than writing-paper there may be over a million and a half of them. When Fig. 462. Some magnified Btarch-grains, in two cells of a potato. 463. Some cells of tin- albumen r floury pari of Indian Corn, filled with starch-grains. Fig. 464. Four cells from dried Onion-peel, each holding a crystal of different shape, one of them twinned. (65. Some *â 7. Prismatic; crystals from the hark of Hickory. 168. Glomerate crystal in â cell, from Beet-root. (69 \ tew cells oi Locust-bark, a crystal in each. 170. A detached cell, with rhaphidea being forced out, a* happens when put in 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : American Book Company
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