1. 
ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 
List of Slides. 
Starch in cotyledons of bean. 
2. Do. three weeks after germination. 
3. 
Rootlet of «Chinese sacred lily,” Narcissus Tazetta, variety 
orientalis (longitudinal section). 
4, 
Rootlet of barley. 
5.2 Cross-section of exogenous root in its winter condition (starch). 
6.2 Do. of small parsnip. 
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Cross-section, longitudinal tangential section, and longitudinal 
radial section of apple wood (all on one slide). 
8. Do. of grapevine. 
9. Do. of sassafras. 
10. Macerated wood cells and bast fibres. 
11. Three sections of white pine (on one slide). 
12. Longitudinal section of chicory or dandelion root (ducts, 
parenchyma). 
13. Do. rootstock of Pteris (ducts, parenchyma). 
14. Do. stem of Ricinus (ducts, parenchyma). 
15. Section of elder pith. 
16. Cross-section of young stem of clematis. 
17. Cross-section of Indian corn stem. 
18. ? Do. of ash twig in winter (storage of starch). 
19. Lily leaf, cross-section and under epidermis (one slide). 
20. Hydrangea leaf, lower epidermis. | 
21. Ficus elastica cross-section and lower epidermis (one slide). 
22. Cross-section of leaf of rhododendron. 
23. Cross-section of leaf of beech. 
24. Pollen. 
25. Protococcus. 
26. Spirogyra in conjugation. 
1 This set of thirty-one mounted slides and the accompanying unmounted sections 
in alcohol will be furnished for $6 (or if mailed for $6.20) by Miss E. M. Drury, 119 
St. Botolph St., Boston. Miss Drury will also furnish other botanical slides to order 
at prices varying (for most preparations) from 25 to 35 cents per slide. 
2 Fifty thin sections of each of these objects will be furnished in alcohol, They 
may be soaked in water for a few minutes, then moistened with dilute iodine solution . 
and examined under the microscope for starch. 
