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those states of development, in which they are not yet adapted 

 to subsequent physiological functions. The combination of 

 morphological and physiological points of view in the determin- 

 ation of facts has maintained itself longer in this part of 

 botanical study than in any other ; but here too ideas and 

 opinions were gradually sifted and cleared up under the influ- 

 ence of the modern study of the history of development, 

 though it was not till after 1850 that the determination of the 

 chief points in the theory of cell-formation left the leading 

 phytotomists at liberty to devote themselves to histological 

 questions. 



How little advance had been made towards the true under- 

 standing of the varieties of forms of tissue in the higher plants 

 before 1850 is shown, for instance, by Schleiden's account of 

 tissues on page 232 of his 'Grundziige' of 1845, where 

 parenchyma, intercellular substance, vessels, vascular bundles, 

 bast-tissue, bast-cells in Apocyneae and Asclepiadeae, latici- 

 ferous vessels, felted tissue, epidermal tissue, are discussed in 

 this succession in co-ordinated sections of the text. It is 

 obvious that no well-ordered view of the whole cellular 

 structure of a plant of the higher order could be obtained in 

 this way. Further on in the same work, where Schleiden 

 attempts a classification of vascular bundles, which he dis- 

 tinguishes into closed and open, and assigns the latter to 

 Dicotyledons, we find the cambium-layer named as the outer 

 boundary of these open vascular bundles ; the bast which lies 

 outside the cambium was therefore not considered to be a part 

 of the open vascular bundles, and this necessarily excluded 

 any profitable comparison of the circumstances in Monocoty- 

 ledons and Dicotyledons. The case is still worse in many 

 respects inSchacht's work already mentioned, ' DiePflanzenzelle ' 

 of 1852, where under the heading 'Kinds of vegetable cells' 

 the histology is discussed in the following co-ordinated sections ; 

 the swarm-filaments of Cryptogams, the spores of the same, 

 pollen-grains, cells and tissue of Fungi and Lichens, cells and 



