Study the botany of flowerless and seedless plants with the cryptogamae microscope slide sets. Cryptogramae, meaning hidden reproduction, are plants that reproduce by spores without flowers or seeds and include algae, fungi, mosses and ferns. Each slide set includes a full-color brochure with corresponding pictures.
Specifications
Cryptogamae Supplementary Slide Set I includes 25 microscope slides: • Albugo candida, white rust of crucifers, t.s. • Bacillus subtilis, hay bacillus, with spores • Boletus, pore fungus, pileus t.s. • Chara, stonewort, thallus with reproductive organs • Closterium, crescent shaped desmid • Ectocarpus, brown alga, plurilocular gametangia • Equisetum, horse tail, spores with elaters w.m. • Moss protonema w.m. • Nostoc, blue green alga with heterocysts • Penicillium, blue mold, mycelium and conidiophores • Phyllitis scolopendrium, fern, leaf with sori and sporangia t.s. • Plasmodiophora brassicae, club root, host cells with spores t.s. • Polytrichum, moss, stem with leaves t.s. • Pteridium, braken fern, rhizome t.s. • Puccinia graminis, aecidia and pycnidia on barberry leaf t.s. • Puccinia graminis, wheat rust, uredinia on wheat t.s. • Rhodomela, marine red alga, tetraspores • Sclerotinia (Monilia), plum rot, host tissue with conidia t.s. • Selaginella, strobilus with spores l.s. • Sphagnum, peat moss, leaf w.m. • Streptococcus lactis, milk souring bacteria • Ustilago zeae, corn smut, pustule with spores t.s. • Volvox, with daughter colonies • Xanthoria, lichen, apothecium with asci and ascospores t.s. • Zygnema, vegetative and conjugation stages with zygotes