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CHAPTEU III. 



INTERNAL STRUCTURE. 



" There, to charm the curious eye, 

 A host of hidden treasures lie, 

 A microscopic world, that tells, 



That not alone in trees and flowers 

 The spirit hright of beauty dwells. 



That not alone in lofty bowers 

 The mighty hand of God is seen, 

 But more triumphant still in things men count as mean." 



Neither space nor the popular character of this treatise 

 permit of our dwelling minutely on this branch of the 

 subject. Holding however, as we do, that anatomical 

 research into the structure and observation of the phe- 

 nomena of life in these minute vegetables is by no mean 



