"Apices" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is represented by magosphaera. This is a microscopic globular form, discovered by Professor Haeckel on the coast of Norway. It consists of a large number of conical or pear-shaped individual cells, whose apices are turned toward the centre of the sphere. The cells are cemented together by a mucilaginous substance. Around their exposed larger ends, which form the surface of the sphere, are rows of flagella, by whose united action the colony rolls through the water. After ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler
... have been lined with successive layers of chalcedony. Many agates are hollow, since deposition has not proceeded far enough to fill the cavity, and in such cases the last deposit commonly consists of quartz, often amethystine, having the apices of the crystals directed towards the free space, so as to form a ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... to increasing stimulus. They were made with specimens of cauliflower-stalks, one of which (a) showed little fatigue, while in the other (b) fatigue was present. It will be seen that the curves obtained by joining the apices of the successive single ...
— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose |
