. Introduction to cryptogamic botany. Cryptogams. INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY. 17 dustlike bodies are regular globose cells; a few of these are placed on damp glass, they germinate readily, protruding a single thread. He perceives then, notwithstanding the spiral. Fig. 7. a. Spheerozosma elegans. Cord. Eng. Bot. t. 2939. h. Amphitetras antediluviana, Ehrb. Ealfs in Ann. of Nat. Hist., vol. xi., p. 276, tab. 8, fig. 5. cells, that he has before him at least one characteristic feature of Cryptogamic plants, and he is satisfied that he has again fallen on an exceptional case. He has got a
. Introduction to cryptogamic botany. Cryptogams. INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY. 17 dustlike bodies are regular globose cells; a few of these are placed on damp glass, they germinate readily, protruding a single thread. He perceives then, notwithstanding the spiral. Fig. 7. a. Spheerozosma elegans. Cord. Eng. Bot. t. 2939. h. Amphitetras antediluviana, Ehrb. Ealfs in Ann. of Nat. Hist., vol. xi., p. 276, tab. 8, fig. 5. cells, that he has before him at least one characteristic feature of Cryptogamic plants, and he is satisfied that he has again fallen on an exceptional case. He has got a Fungus of the Genus Trichia. c. A green slimy matter in a little pool upon the neighbouring heath attracts his notice. This also he sub- mits to his microscope, and sees that it is a production of astonishing beauty, consisting of many couples of curiously pinnatifid joints. (Fig. 7, a.) On examination, he is sure that increase does not take place at the tips, but from the division of the component joints. The plant is not then acrogenous, but it is so completely cellular, that without knowing exr actly what the fruit is, he concludes at once that he has got a Cryptogam, and a further knowledge of closely allied forms will convince him that he has been correct in his apprehension. He has found some difficulty in every case, but he has found it still more impossible to suppose that he had anything to do with Phsenogams. d. Soon however he is still more perplexed. The leaves which lie in the low waterspout of his conser- vatory are covered with a dark red coating. This also is submitted to the microscope, and he has wonders enough before him. Here are globes filled with uniform matter, the endochrome or protoplasm so common in vegetable cells; others, in which the protoplasm has parted into a definite num- 2. 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
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