Pistil of Geranium or Cranesbill, ripe, with the five carpels splitting away from the long beak (carpophore),…
One of its component simple fruits (drupe) in section, showing the pulp, stone, and contained seed.
Seed of a Linden or Basswood cut through lengthwise, the parts lettered: a, the hilum or scar;…
Some wood-cells from Buttonwood, Platanus, a whole cell and lower end of another on the left; a cell…
Diagram of a cross section of a very young exogenous stem, showing six woody bundles or wedges.
Diagram of a cross section of a very young exogenous stem, showing twelve woody bundles or wedges.
Diagram of a cross section of an exogenous stem, the wedges filling the space, separated only by the…
Surface of a young Maple wood from which the bark has been torn away, showing the bark (on the left)…
Small portion of epidermis of the lower face of a White-Lily leaf, with stomata, in the closed state.
A spore-case from the Walking-Fern, Camptosorus, just bursting by the partial straightening of the incomplete…
Adder-Tongue, Ophioglossum: spore-cases in a kind of spike: a, a portion of the fruiting part…
A young prothallus of a Maiden-hair and an older one with the first fern-leaf developed from near the…
A young prothallus of a Maiden-hair, middle portion of the younger one, partly among the rootlets, the…
Small plant of Azolla Caroliniana, showing two kinds of sporocarp; the small ones contain microspores.
Small plant of Azolla Caroliniana, showing a sporocarp; the small ones contain microspores.
A larger sporocarp of the Azolla Caroliniana, more magnified and burst open, showing stalked spore-cases.
Two sporoscopes of the Azolla Caroliniana; one of them bursting shows four contained macrospores between…