Pacific Northwest Sea Stack Cryptogams:
I.  Scapania scandica in Oregon

Leaf margin showing undifferentiated cells and cuticular papillae, imaged at 1000x.
 
 

Median laminal cells, imaged at 400x.
 
 

Cuticular papillae over marginal cell lumens, imaged at 1000x.
Note papillae center left in side view and upper right in surface view.
 

Oil bodies and cell walls.  Median cells (left, imaged at 400x) and marginal cells (right, imaged at 1000x).
 

Gemiparous apex, imaged at 80x (left), imaged at 200x (right).
 

Gemmae from shoot apex, imaged at 400x.
 

Gemma, imaged at 1000x.
 
 

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Last revised on 11 August 2001

 Copyright © 2001 Steven L. Jessup, Southern Oregon University