INDEX. 



509 



Micro-slides. See object-slides. 

 Microsomata (rnicrosomes), 39, 251, 



435. 



Microsporangia, 366. 

 Microspore. See under spore. 

 Microtome, hand, 82 (fig. 29) ; com- i 



pound, 454 ; rocking, 451 (fig. 159). 

 Middle lamella (of cell-wall), 73, 77, ! 



88 (fig. 26), 186, 232. 

 Mid-rib, 193, 240. 

 Milk. See latex. 

 Millon's reagent, use of, 28, 29, 38. : 



See also Appendix III. 

 Mirnosese, compound pollen of, 391. 

 Mimitlus lute us, vascular bundle ends, 



199. 



Mistletoe. See Viscum album. 

 Mitotic nuclear division, 434. 

 Mnium hornum, chlorophyll-grains, 



52 ; movements of, 53 ; antheridia, 



345 ; archegonia, 347 ; sporogone, 



348. 



undulatum, structure of leaf, 230 ; ; 



of stem, 228 ; absorption of water ! 

 by leaves, 231. 



Moist chamber, 17, 279 ; hollowed from j 

 glass slide, 279 ; of glass ring, 279, j 

 318 ; pasteboard frame, 279, 291, I 

 318 ; plaster of Paris case, 279. 



Molecular movement. See Brownian 

 movement. 



Molybdate of ammonia, in concen- 

 trated solution of ammonium '< 

 chloride, use of, 71, 149. 



Monkshood. See Aconitum Napellus. 



Monocarpellary, 394. 



Monocotyledons, vascular bundles of, 

 101 et seq. ; seed of, 413. 



Monoecious, 292, 370. 



Monopodial (branching), 319. 



Monotropa Hypopltys, structure of em- i 

 bryo-sac, 400 (fig. 146). 



Montbretia. See Triton-la. 



Morcliella esculenta ; epiplasm, 326 ; 

 glycogen in, 327 ; ascospores, 326 ! 

 (fig. 117). 



Mordants, use of, 111. 



Morell. See Morcliella esculenta. 



Mosses, reproduction of, 345 et seq. 

 (figs. 125-9) ; vegetative structure, 

 51. 228 et seq. 



Mould, pin-head, see Mucor ; blue, see 

 Penicillium. 



Mounting fluid. See glycerine, gly- i 

 cerine-jelly, Canada balsam, dam- 

 mar. 

 - preparations. See preparations. 



Movements, of diatoms, 258 ; Oscillaria, 

 263; bacteria, 281 ; Spirogyra,291. 



protoplasmic. See protoplasm. 



See also swarms pores, spermato- 



zoids. 



Mucilage cells of Marchantia, 235. 



sacs of Tilia, 153. 



Mucilages, cellulose, pectose, callose r 



429 ; wound, 202. 

 Mucilagination of spermoderm, 411 



426, 428. 



Mucorineae, 311, 327. 

 Mucor Mucedo, reproduction, 311 (fig. 



113*) ; slide culture, 312 ; staining, 



312 ; sexual reproduction, 315 (fig. 



114) ; sporangia, 317 ; parasites on, 



317. 



yeast, 317. 



Mullein. See Verbascum nigrum. 



Multinuclear cells, 50, 247, 296, 312, 

 324, 329. See also nuclear divi- 

 sion. 



Multiplication, 287. 



Mushroom. See Agaricus campestris. 



Mustard. See Sinapis. 



Mycelium, 311, 313, 323. 



Myriophyllum, growing point, 212. 



Narcissus poeticus, pollen-tubes of, 



392; egg-apparatus, 405. 

 Nasturtium. See Tropceolum. 

 Navicula. See Pinnularia. 

 Neck, neck-canal. See archegonium. 

 Needle-holder, xxx (and footnote), 209. 

 Needles, xxx, 449 (fig. 158). 

 Nerve, use of term, 198. 

 Nettle, stinging. See Urtica. 

 Neutral band or line, 48, 49, 245. 

 Xicotiana, culture of pollen-tubes, 



392. 



Nigrosine, picric, use of, 111. 

 Xitella, protoplasmic movement in, 



50 ; structure of, 244, 309. 

 Nitrates, reactions of, 67. 

 Nitric acid, 69, 70, 259; reagent for 



calcium phosphate, 70. 

 Nitrites, reactions of, 67. 

 Node, 209, 245. 



Non-cellular. See multinuclear. 

 Nose-piece, double, xxiii, 4 ; to adjust, 



xxiv, footnote. 



Nostocaceae, 260 ; mucilages of, 429. 

 Nostoc cinlflonum, 262. 

 Nourishing. See assimilating. 

 Nucellus. See ovule. 



homology with macrosporangium, 



399. 



Nuclear division, 434 ; in Fritillaria 

 persica, 438 (fig. 154) ; Helleborus 

 foetidus, 443 (fig. 155); Trades- 

 cantia i-irginica, 434 (fig. 153), 

 456 (fig. 160). 



direct, 456 (fig. 160) ; indirect, 



434 (figs. 153-5). 



without cell-formation, 404. 



fixing and staining nuclear figures, 



438 et seq. 



