The softer Fungi are very difficult of preservation in the entire state; but the sections or minute structures may be mounted in chloride of calcium or glycerine.
The harder and drier Fungi may be preserved by drying and gentle pressure between coarse absorbent paper. They may then be glued to pieces of paper and labelled, in the same manner as the flowering plants. Specimens of the capsules, as of the Sphæriæ, &c., may also be mounted in the dry state, the asci being preserved in the chloride of calcium or glycerine, in which liquids most of the smaller Fungi will keep extremely well.
| PLATE IX [[PAGE 113.]] | |
| Animal Tissues, &c. | |
| Fig. | |
| 1. | Blood-corpuscles, Human. |
| 2. | Blood-corpuscles of Bird (Fowl). |
| 3. | Blood-corpuscles of Reptile (Frog). |
| 4. | Blood-corpuscles of Fish (Stickleback). |
| 5. | Hair of Bat. |
| 6. | Hair of Mouse. |
| 7. | Hair of Mouse. |
| 8. | Hair, human. |
| 9. | Hair, human. |
| 10. | Wool, fibre of. |
| 11. | Flax, fibres of. |
| 12. | Cotton, fibres of. |
| 13. | Silk, fibres of. |
| 14. | Feather, portion of: a, barbs; b, c, pinnæ. |
| 15. | Bone, section of: a, lacunæ. |
| 16. | Cartilage, section of. |
| 17. | Feather, downy. |
| 18. | Feather, downy: pinna. |
| 19. | Shell, pearly or nacreous portion of. |
| 20. | Muscle: a, cellular tissue; b, fibrillæ; c, bundle of fibrillæ. |
| 21. | Tongue of Whelk: a, natural size. |
| 22. | Scale of Dace. |
| 23. | Scale of Perch. |
| 24. | Scale of Cod. |
| 25. | Spermatozoa of Chub. |
| 26. | Flustra foliacea: a, cells of; b, animal, with the tentacles expanded. |
| 27. | Flustra foliacea. |
| 28. | Shell of Oyster, brown portion of. |
| 29. | Shell of Oyster, prisms of. |
| 30. | Cyclops quadricornis. |
| 31. | Daphnia pulex, female. |
| 32. | Daphnia pulex, head of male. |
| 33. | Canthocamptus minutus, an Entomostracan. |
| 34. | Cypris tristriata. |
| 35. | Cypris tristriata, eggs of; 35 a, b, c, the same hatching. |
| 36. | Acarus domesticus (Cheese-mite), female. |
| 36*. | Cilia of gills of Oyster. |
| 37. | Trombidium fuliginosum: a, pulp; b, mandible; c, foot; d, natural size; e, hair; f, hair of T. holosericeum. |
| 38. | Acarus domesticus, male. |
| 39. | Membranipora pilosa. |
