Monro, Alexander: Observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system: illustrated with tables (Edinburgh [u.a.], 1783)

ij-i EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES.

TABLE XLII.
HP HIS table ssiews the appearance of a mite, viewed in
the sun-mine with a double microfcope, which magni-
fies the diameter 146 times.

The whole body and limbs seem to be composed of convoluted sibres.

T A B L E XLIII.
^HIS table represents the appearance os fome of the parts
os vegetables viewed with the microscope.
Fig. I. Represents, of its real size, a transverfe se&ion os a branch os
lilac.
Fig. II. Represents the fame branch, viewed through a magnifying glass
which increases its diameter about six times.
Fig. III. Shews the appearance os the same branch viewed in fun-mine,
with a double microfcope, which increases the diameter 146 times.
A The pith lodged in cells.
B Air veffels in the wood.
C The bark.
All thefe parts appear to have ferpentine fibres in their composition
when viewed in fun-lhine.
Fig. IV. Shews the appearance os sir dried; and Fig. V. and VI. Ihew
the appearance of thin ssices from the recent leaves of myrtle and gera-
nium, feen through a microfcope, which increafes the diameter 146 times.
Numerous ferpentine sibres feem to enter into the texture of the wood
and os the leaves.
T ABLE