Contents 



Part I— General Principles and Methods 



1. Iniroduction 3 



2. Collecting and Subdividing Plant Materials 5 



3. Killing, Fixing, and Storing Plant Tissues 12 



4. Dehydration for Embedding 22 



5. Infiltration and Embedding in Paraffin Wax 31 



6. Microtome Sectioning of Material in Paraffin .... 40 



7. Staining Paraffin Sections 55 



8. The Celloidin Method 78 



9. Sectioning Unembedded Tissues ^'1 



10. The Preparation of Whole Mounts and Smears .... 99 



11. Criteria of Successful Processing HO 



Part II— Specific Methods 



12. Introduction 11^ 



13. Vegetative Organs of Vascular Plants 121 



14. Thallophyta and Bryophyta I'i^ 



15. Reproductive Structures of Vascular Plants 165 



16. Microscope Construction, Use, and Care 182 



17. Photomicrography 202 



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Index 



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