Excerpt from Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science
It has been well remarked by Dr. Lankester, "that the biography of our British plants has yet to be written, microscope in hand; and it is not till the minute details of the cell-life of each plant have been recorded that we shall be in a position to arrive at the laws which govern the life of the vegetable kingdom."
And, it may be added, until due attention has been paid to this important subject, we shall never be able to comprehend and realise all the mysterious plans and specifications by which nature has marked, for our instruction, her own affinities and contrasts among allied groups of that kingdom.
As a fragment towards this desirable object, it is now proposed to give an abstract of my researches on the distribution of raphides in the British Flora, compiled from numerous papers published piecemeal in the 'Annals of Natural History' and other journals; with elucidations, by some experimental trials and facts, now first submitted for publication. Besides these new observations and the inherent interest of the subject, the present digest may afford materials for useful help to such botanists as may like to try the value of raphides as natural characters in our native plants, and for the employment of these characters, should the verdict be favorable to them, in appropriate parts of future editions of the British Flora.
Of the former papers a summary, with many fresh observations, was given in the 'Popular Science Review' for October last; but I was then so much engaged with the exotic Flora and other parts of the subject as to be obliged to dismiss our indigenous plants with a curt and insufficient notice. How easily and pleasantly these researches may be made, and with what hopes of success, I have shown in that Review.
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