Outlines of a portion of the stem in section, showing the central cell and the outer or cortical cells.
A piece of the rose-red Delesseria Lepreiurei, showing that it is composed of a layer of cells.
A piece of the rose-red Delesseria Lepreiurei, showing the cells are gelatinous and thick-walled.
Closterium acutum, a common Desmid. It is a single firm-walled cell, filled with green protoplasmic…
A Vaucheria; single cell grown on into a much-branched thread; the end of some branches enlarging, and…
Bryopsis plumosa; apex of a stem with its branchlets; all the extension of one cell.
A stone on which various Lichens are growing, such as (passing from left to right) a Parmelia, a Sticta,…
Piece of thallus of a Sticta, with section, showing the immersed apothecia; the small openings of these…
Eriosoma Tesselata was found on birch in Maryland, in clusters near the ends of twigs, in the autumn.…
A grape-vine leaf gall-louse. The insect forms galls on the under side of the grape-vine leaves, and…
Phylloxera Vastatrix, a grape-vine-root gall-louse, is by many entomologists supposed to be another…
The Southern Katydid, Microcentrum laurifolium- 1, the female adult; 1a, eggs laid on leaves and twigs…
Elm-leaf beetle, Galeruca xanthomelaena; a, egg patches on leaves; b, larva feeding; c, adult feeding.
Nemorea leucaniae species, Tachinid on cut-worms; white eggs on the anterior segments of the caterpillar.
A leaf-cutter bee, Megachile species. Leaves cut from leaf-cutter bee in a burrow in a dead branch.
Camelia sinensis is the tea plant, the plant species whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce…
Camphor is a white transparent waxy crystalline solid with a strong penetrating pungent aromatic odor.
"The great shearwater reaches a length of eighteen inches, is white beneath, and is generally distributed…
"The common sorrel is a meadow plant, slender in habit, with halberd-shaped, juicy, acid flavored leaves,…
"The Japanese spaniel, sometimes called the 'sleeve dog', is black and white in color; coat massive…
"The common spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus) is a European shrub, which bears glossy lanceolate…