SOME EFFECTS OF NITROGEN NUTRITION ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF MARROW-STEM KALE

Marrow-stem kale plants grown on plots receiving frequent additions of sulphate of ammonia showed a 40% increase in length of internode and a 25% increase in number of nodes per plant, and the leaf size was increased by between 50 and 70% over plants in plots receiving no N fertilizer. Leaves of kale continue to increase in area until they turn yellow, and the high N leaves showed a greater rate of increase in area at every stage in the life of the leaf.
Various features of leaf structure, such as stomatal index, and thickness of palisade and mesophyll, were unaffected by N treatment. The size of the epidermal cells of the leaves was very variable, and although the high N leaves showed a 12% increase in area per epidermal cell over the low N leaves, this difference is not statistically significant. The increased area of the high N leaves can therefore be attributed mainly to increased cell division during the life of the leaf. Only a very slight increase in rate of cell division is necessary to produce the observed effect.
The greater leaf area of the high N plants can be attributed mainly to increased size of individual leaves, but there was also a significantly greater number of living functional leaves per plant on the high N plants; at 23 weeks from sowing the high N plants had an average of 13.4 living leaves, while the low N plants had only 11.7 living leaves per plant.
There was an appreciable degree of N succulence in the high N kale leaves, which showed a 2% greater moisture content than the low N leaves.
A seasonal drift in epidermal cell size, palisade thickness, and total leaf thickness, is shown to be fully significant, statistically. Marked variations in stomatal frequency are barely significant at the 5% level.     

THE MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF CALLIPTERIDIUM SULLIVANTI

Leisman , Gilbert A. (Kansas State Teachers Coll., Emporia.) The morphology and anatomy of Callipteridium Sullivanti. Amer. Jour. Bot. 47(4) : 281—287. Illus. 1960.–Previously undescribed pinnules of Callipteridium Sullivanti (Lesq.) Weiss have been studied in Iowa and Kansas coal balls. Conventional peel techniques revealed the anatomy while deliberately fracturing the coal ball revealed morphological features. Epidermal studies were also conducted after macerating small portions of the coal ball. Evidence indicates that these pinnules were borne on Myeloxylon petioles. Arguments are advanced for removing this species from the genus Alethopteris and returning it to Callipteridium.     

芸苔族几种植物花粉形态的研究

对芸苔族８种２变种的花粉进行了光镜和扫描电镜观察。其中４种２变种为首次报道。研究表明,芸苔族植物花粉形态特征基本一致。但在花粉大小、萌发孔类型以及外壁纹饰上种间存在一定的差异。同时发现该族植物的花粉大小与其染色体数有一定的相关性。     

COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PRIMARY VASCULAR SYSTEMS IN SOME SPECIES OF ROSACEAE AND LEGUMINOSAE

The structural patterns of the primary vascular systems in some species of Leguminosae and Rosaceae have been determined by tracing the longitudinal course of the vascular bundles in terminal stem segments. These systems are interpreted as consisting of sympodia. Each sympodium is composed of an axial bundle which is continuous through the length of the segment and from which arise trace bundles that supply leaves and axillary buds. A compact arrangement of vascular bundles seems to correlate with the woody habit. Regardless of the degree of compactness of the primary vascular system, the structural identity of the individual sympodia is maintained. The total number of vascular bundles at a particular level is related to the number of axial bundles in the system, the number of traces per leaf and per axillary bud, and the number of internodes traversed by the traces prior to entering a lateral appendage. Shrubs and trees have more vascular bundles than herbs. Data from this study and the literature indicate that the vascular system is predominantly of the open type in dicotyledonous plants which have helically arranged leaves and, further, that in such plants with a 3-trace, trilacunar nodal structure, the number of sympodia coincides with the number of orthostichies (which is also the denominator of the phyllotactic fraction). In open systems leaf gaps cannot be morphologically delimited. Because of the resemblance of the open type of angiosperm vascular system to that of certain gymnosperms, previously interpreted to have evolved from a protostele, we suggest that the eustele of angiosperms is homologous with the stele of gymnosperms. We believe, also, that angiosperms, like gymnosperms, are probably not characterized by leaf gaps of filicinean type. We provide, furthermore, a rationale for the view that the axial bundle of a sympodium is a cauline structure.     

芥蓝与芸苔属几个常见种花粉形态的比较

本文通过对芸苔属(Brassica L.)几个常见种芥蓝(B. alboglabra Bailey)、芥菜(B.juncea(L. )Coss.)、油菜(B. campestris L.)和花椰菜(B. oleracea var. botrytis L.)等花粉形态的光学显微镜和扫描电镜的观察比较,得知它们的花粉形态特征比较一致。而与杨萍等关于芥蓝的花粉形态特征——无极,具散孔这一报道截然不同;亦与黄增泉(Huang Tseng-chieng)关于芥菜的花粉特征——不具萌发孔的报道不同。作者的研究表明,上述几个种的花粉均具3沟,沟长而明显。外壁具网状纹饰,网眼较粗。但种与种间其花粉大小有所不同。作者不同意杨萍等关于“由于芥蓝的花粉形态与芸苔属其它种的花粉明显区别,说明芥蓝与芸苔属其它种不很亲缘”的观点,而认为,从花粉形态看,芥蓝与芸苔属其它种是基本一致的,把它们置于同一自然类群是合理的。