"Ectoderm" Quotes from Famous Books
... far more beautiful green than that with which I had been before operating—the dingy brownish-olive variety, plumosa. The former owes its color to a green pigment diffused chiefly through the ectoderm, but has comparatively few algae in its endoderm; while in the latter the pigment is present in much smaller quantity; but the endoderm cells are crowded by algae. An ordinary specimen of plumosa was ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various |