. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Botany. SECTION 16.] ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE. 131 solid matters and in age mostly air—naturally came to be named a Cell. Bat the name was suggested by, and first used only for, ceils iu combination or built up into a fabric, much as a wall is built of bricks, that is, into a 401. Cellular Structure or Tissue. Suppose numerous cells like those of Fig. 437 to be heaped up like a pile of caunon-balls, and as they grew, to be compacted together while soft and yielding; they would flatten where they touched, and each sphere, being touched by twel
. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Botany. SECTION 16.] ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE. 131 solid matters and in age mostly air—naturally came to be named a Cell. Bat the name was suggested by, and first used only for, ceils iu combination or built up into a fabric, much as a wall is built of bricks, that is, into a 401. Cellular Structure or Tissue. Suppose numerous cells like those of Fig. 437 to be heaped up like a pile of caunon-balls, and as they grew, to be compacted together while soft and yielding; they would flatten where they touched, and each sphere, being touched by twelve surroundiug ones would become twelve-sided. Fig. 438 would represent one of them. Suppose the contiguous faces to be united into one wall or partition be- tween adjacent cavities, and a cellular structure would be formed, like that shown in Fig. 439. Roots, stems, leaves, and the whole of phan-. erogamous plants are a fabric of countless num- bers of sucli cells. No such exact regularity in size and shape is ever actually found; but a nearly truthful magnified view of a small portion of a slice of the flower-stalk of a Calla Lily (Fig. 440) shows a fairly corres-. 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 Co
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