70 VEGETABLE ORGANOGRAPHY. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF THE STOMATA, OR PORES OF THE CUTICLE. 



I DESIGNATE, With Link, Under the name of Stomata 

 (stomatesj, the oval orifices, which are very visible under 

 the microscope, in the cuticle of the largest part of the 

 herbaceous surfaces of plants. 



Grew was the first anatomist who observed them: 

 but he did not call them by any particular name, or 

 bestow any great attention upon them, Guettard, who 

 only saw them with a lens, has called them Miliary 

 Glands (glandes miliaires). Gleichen observed them 

 well on Ferns, but he took them for the male organs. 

 Hor. Bened. De Saussure calls them Cortical Glands 

 (glandules corticales). Hedwig designates them by 

 the names of Evaporating Pores, (spiracula, pari ex- 

 halantes) ; Jurine, Link, and Kieser, by the simple 

 name of Pores; De La Metherie, by that of Epi- 

 dermal Glands (glandes cpidermo'i dales). Mirbel has 

 called them, in different works, Elongated or Large Pores 

 (pores alo7iges ou grands). Rudolphi has given a 

 good description of them under the name of the Pores 

 of the Epidermis (pores de Vcpiderme). I have myself 



