Diatoms
Subtitle: Biology and Morphology of the Genera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 25, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 758
ISBN-13: 9780521363181
Subjects: Phycology, algae & lichens; Science/Mathematics; Algae; Science; Life Sciences - Botany; Science / Botany; Diatoms
First sentence: In 1703 an English country gentleman looked with his simple microscope at roots of the pond-weed Lemna and '. . . saw adhering to them (and sometimes separate in the water) many pretty branches, compos'd of rectangular oblongs and exact squares'.