Chapter 31. Investigating Simple Plants: Mosses and Ferns

Equipment and Materials

You’ll need the following items to complete this lab session. (The standard kit for this book, available from www.thehomescientist.com, includes the items listed in the first group.) If you are preparing your own live specimens, do so starting a week or so before you intend to do this lab session.

Materials from Kit

  • Goggles

  • Coverslips

  • Forceps

  • Magnifier

  • Pipettes

  • Scalpel

  • Slides, flat

  • Stain: eosin Y

  • Stain: methylene blue

  • Teasing needles

Materials You Provide

  • Gloves

  • Microscope

  • Microscope, stereo (optional)

  • Slides, prepared (optional; see text)

  • Specimen(s), fern (see text)

  • Specimen(s), moss (see text)

Background

This and the following lab session present an excellent opportunity for a field ...

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