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HALF-HOURS IN THE GREEN LANES. 



Bladder Campion already noticed, but with fewer 

 and smaller leaves both yield these sphaeraphides 

 (Fig. 196). 



Of other structures of plants which a little know- 

 ledge of microscopical investigation will yield to the 

 student, space forbids us to treat ; with that instru- 

 ment a " feast of fat things " is always spread, and 



Fig. 196. 



t, Sphaeraphides, one in its cell, the other crushed, from the leaf of 

 the Nettle ; /, Sphaeraphides, one in its cell, the other naked, from 

 the stem of Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis anwwa); m, the same, from 

 the leaf of Marine Bladder Campion (Silene maritimd) ; n, Sphae- 

 raphid Tissue (magnified less than half as much as the other objects), 

 from the leaf of Veratrum ; o, Raphides, from the same leaf. 



leisure hours may thus be profitably spent and the 

 mind be relieved of worldly cares, and feel, as a human 

 soul should feel, freer from the arbitrary shackles 

 which the stiffened duties of modern civilisation tend 

 to fasten on a man. We know of no higher or more 

 congenial occupation than that of investigating the 

 laws and phenomena of Nature. Surely if politics 



