. Minute marvels of nature, being some revelations of the microscope, exhibited by photomicrographs taken by the author. Natural history; Microscopes. GLIMPSES INTO PLANT STRUCTURE }^ celled alga;, known to botanists as Protococcus tnridis. Fig. 21 shows a magnified photograph of this green stuff off my finger-nail, under a medium magnifying power, and reveals a con-. Fig. 21. The green stain on damp fences, &c., is conii")Osed ot myriads of microscopic plants glomeration of granules, each granule a plant. If we examine one of these green granules under very high magnifying powers, we
. Minute marvels of nature, being some revelations of the microscope, exhibited by photomicrographs taken by the author. Natural history; Microscopes. GLIMPSES INTO PLANT STRUCTURE }^ celled alga;, known to botanists as Protococcus tnridis. Fig. 21 shows a magnified photograph of this green stuff off my finger-nail, under a medium magnifying power, and reveals a con-. Fig. 21. The green stain on damp fences, &c., is conii")Osed ot myriads of microscopic plants glomeration of granules, each granule a plant. If we examine one of these green granules under very high magnifying powers, we find that it possesses considerable structural detail, simple, perhaps, compared with the structure of the higher plants ; but then it must be remembered that these tiny living plant-atoms occupy only about one-thousandth of an inch of space. c. 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 Ward, John J. New York, T. Y. Crowell and Co.
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