TRANSACTIONS OF MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES III, IV, V, 
Illustrating the Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne^s paper on 
Vegetable Cell-formation, principally as shown in the 
Growth of Wheat. 
PLATE III. 
Fig. 
1 . — Seed of wheat germinating, slightly enlarged, 
A. Green future blade, &c. 
B. Seed, starch, gluten, &c. 
C. Main root. 
DD. Lateral roots. 
EEE. Free cones of cells at the points of the roots. 
E. Hard cellular matter, the base of growth of root and stem. 
n. Cellular tissue, the original covering of embryo blade. 
|S. Ditto of root. 
y, y. Rootlets. 
^, Course of bundle of dotted fibre. 
f, £, £. Suckers. 
I. Course of spiral fibre. 
2. — Section from junction of germ with seed. 
2 a. — The sap-tube on a larger scale, 
3. — Thick-walled cellular tissue, with dark granular matter and oil, con- 
necting the bundles of fibre and their investing cells with the 
germinating point. 
ab. Layers of cells in immediate connection with — 
c. Thick-walled cells containing oil. 
4. —Termination of rootlet slightly magnified, with its free capsule of 
cells, d, and suckers. 
5. — Capsule enlarged. 
6. — Centre of apex of young root. 
7. 7* — Stages of growth of suckers from side of root. 
/ Suckers. 
g. An escaped nucleus with its nucleolus. 
8. 9. — Growth from side of root. 
h. Nuclei in egg-shaped vesicles. 
i. Hyaline thread-like processes. 
10. — Cell-increase. 
