. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . -rocopteils. he had, at one time, if he has not now, a considerable * 126 OFF-HAND SKETCHES, Fig. 5 exhibits a variety of fruit, of the family of Chara, andcomprised in the same chiss as the foregoing. The fruit is oval, andconsists of five valves, twisted spirally, wdth a small opening at eachextremity. The figiire on the left, marked 1, exhibits the nut within. FIG. b.—CUARA. the pericarp; 2 shows the pericarp; and 3 a portion of the spiralvalve, magnified, w
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . -rocopteils. he had, at one time, if he has not now, a considerable * 126 OFF-HAND SKETCHES, Fig. 5 exhibits a variety of fruit, of the family of Chara, andcomprised in the same chiss as the foregoing. The fruit is oval, andconsists of five valves, twisted spirally, wdth a small opening at eachextremity. The figiire on the left, marked 1, exhibits the nut within. FIG. b.—CUARA. the pericarp; 2 shows the pericarp; and 3 a portion of the spiralvalve, magnified, while 4 and 5 are the natural size of 1 and 2, mag-nified in the engraving. Of the family of the chih-moss or hjcopodia-cece, there are numerous specimens, the most common of w^hich arethe lycopaditcs, lepidodendron, lepidostrobus, and stigmaria, a speci-men of w^hich wo append—fig. G. The stem of the Stigmaria was
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