These scales or protective appendages of the bud consist either of the altered laminae or of the enlarged petiolary sheath, or of stipules, as in the fig and magnolia, or of one or two of these parts combined.
Their natatory respiratory abdominal laminae seem copied from the former, and their anal diverging setae from the latter[407].
The vesicant matter consists of little micaceous laminae soluble in boiling alcohol and oil, but insoluble in water.
What is the agency which enables us to split Honister Crag, or the cliffs of Snowdon, into laminae from crown to base?
At some places the ice had been weathered into laminae not more than a line in thickness.
Some laminae of such rocks withstand the action of the atmosphere better than others, and the more resistant ones stand out in ridges after the softer parts between them have been eaten away.
When looked at obliquely it was found that the lines were merely the sections of flat dim surfaces, which lay like laminae one over the other throughout the length of the prism.
Here the alar and basal laminae are both found, but the former is the more important; from it the optic thalami are derived, and more posteriorly the geniculate bodies.
The basallaminae thicken to form the crura cerebri.
In the mesencephalon the alar laminae form the corpora quadrigemina; these at first are bigeminal and hollow as they are in the lower vertebrates.
In the basallaminae are found the deep origins of most of the motor cranial nerves, while those of the sensory are situated in the alar laminae.
The diamonds of Grammagoa are imbedded in strata of solid silica, and are occasionally enveloped in laminae of mica, like the garnets found in mica slate.
Talc laminae lie scattered here and there in the newly-formed rock, traversed by masses of serpentine.
The ultimate segment was hidden in laminae of cement; and I was not able to make out its structure.
It appears to me that the laminae of chitine, and of calcified chitine composing the valves, are both formed not by secretion, but by the metamorphosis of an outer layer of corium into these substances.
After the valves have been placed in acid, a residue, very different in bulk in different genera, is left, also composed of successive laminae of chitine.
The exterior yellow membrane is marked, or rather composed of successive narrow rims, which, in fact, are the lines of termination of the laminae of membrane, which in a calcified state form the cup itself.
The membrane of the peduncle is continuous with the yellow membrane coating the external surface of the cup; and this latter membrane is continuous with those delicate laminae which, in a calcified condition, form the layers of the cup itself.
It is curious to observe the laminae shoot out, as it were, from nothing, assuming forms resembling real vegetation.
This paste, before being placed in the oven, consists of alternate laminae of butter or fat and ordinary flour dough, the latter being, of course, the thicker of the two.
On some of the hills the rocks were shivered into irregular pieces, and displayed crystals of quartz, small laminae of mica, and occasionally hornblende.
The laminae of this fine-grained rock may be as thin as cardboard in places, and close joints may break the rock into small rhombic blocks.
These folia can be distinguished from the laminae of sedimentary rocks by their lenticular form and lack of continuity, and especially by the fact that they consist of platy, crystalline grains, and not of particles rounded by wear.
If the limestone is laminated, the laminae here have split apart, although below they hold fast together.
The laminae must be lightly insulated from one another, right up to their edges, so that the E.
Above this fossiliferous mass, there is a stratum of very fine-grained, pale brown mudstone, including numerouslaminae of selenite.
Von Buch also in his "Travels in Norway" page 236, remarks on alternating laminae of quartz and hornblende-slate replacing mica-schist.
From these considerations it occurred to me, that perhaps we here had the novel and curious case of already inclined laminae obliquely tilted at a subsequent period by the granitic axis.
A pair of ear plugs with ornamental metal laminae are placed in the enlarged ear lobes.
Gold laminae are very rare and are seldom parted with.
With many stones it is easy to determine the bed by moistening with water, when the laminae will become apparent.
For cornices (except the corner-stones) and work of a like nature, the stone is set with the laminae on edge and perpendicular to the face of the work.
The greatest strength of a stone is obtained when the laminae lie at right angles to the pressure placed upon it.
This structure is called false bedding; the layers or laminae not coinciding with the planes of stratification.
This rock splits up into innumerable thin laminae or plates, the surface of which may either be somewhat rough, or as smooth nearly as glass.
X represent a large iron core, which may be composed of a number of sheets or laminae of soft iron or steel.
Let A A designate two plates built up of thin sections or laminae of soft iron insulated more or less from one another and held together by bolts a and secured to a base B.
The armatures are made of thinlaminae of soft iron or steel, and the amount of magnetic metal which they contain is so calculated that they will be fully or nearly saturated by the magnets.
This may be attributed to the fact that the action of the current is to energize first those laminae or parts of the core nearest the surface and adjacent to the exciting-coil, and from thence the action progresses toward the interior.
The mount is described as consisting of hornblendic slate; "the laminae of the slate on the north and south side near the summit dip inwards.
I was only just getting out of a mist with respect to cleavage-laminae dipping inwards on mountain flanks.
The lower portion rises in steps formed of thin laminae of silica, mostly very thin, but sometimes compact, an inch or two thick.
On the east side huge masses have been broken off, exposing a vertical wall twenty feet high, built up of thin horizontal laminae of limestone.
The vascular tissue is in turn divided into coronary cushion, laminae and velvety tissue.
Sometimes the pus pushes its way upward and backward between the sensitive laminae and the wall, and makes its appearance at the margin of the coronary band in the region of the quarters or heels.
For example, the laminae of the foot are imprisoned between the horny wall and the pedal bone.
The wax-makers remain immoveable for about twenty-four hours, during which period the formation of wax takes place, and thin laminae of this material may be generally perceived under their abdomen.
This ductile mass they attach to that part of the building upon which they are at work, walking backwards and spreading it into laminae of the requisite thinness by means of their jaws, tongue, and legs.
It next seizes one of the laminae of wax with a pincer formed by the posterior metatarsus and tibia[832], and drawing it from beneath the abdominal segment, one of the anterior legs takes it with its claws and carries it to the mouth.
I noticed also some contorted, highly inclined talcose schists, full of small quartz veins, generally running between the laminae of the schists.
Whenever the edges of these laminae are sensible to the eye, they have a fibrous appearance, and reflect various shades of color, which change successively according to their angular position to the eye.
These laminae are rather plainly marked by lines of growth.
The parietes are not very thick, with the inner surface smooth, but with punctures placed in rows for the entrance of the tubuli: the laminae of shell alternate with layers of yellow finely punctured membrane.
Colour dirty white, often slightly tinted yellow from the investing membrane, and from thin layers of punctured membrane alternating with the laminae of shell.
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