Diatoms
Subtitle: Biology and Morphology of the Genera
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 757
ISBN-13: 9780521714693
Subjects: Phycology, algae & lichens; Diatoms; Science / Botany; Life Sciences - Botany; Science; Science/Mathematics
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'.