Excerpt from Elements of Vegetable Histology: For the Use of Students of Pharmacy, Preparatory, to the Study of Pharmacognosy; With 62 Illustrations This little book is intended to serve as a guide for beginners in the study of plant tissues with the microscope, with supple mental instruction from the teacher. The greater portion deals with the tissues and their arrange ment in the higher plants, but it was thought advisable to intro duce a few lessons on the simplest plants, namely, some of those of the Thallophyte series, not only on account of their great importance in the life economy, but also to show the gradual increase in complexity of structure in passing from the ex tremely simple and minute plants of the Thallophyte series to the complicated highly organized members of the Phanerogams, thus giving the student a complete view of the structure and characteristics of the whole range of the vegetable kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.