Wrote Letter L-426 of 1704-09-16 to the members of the Royal Society about leaves of aloe and a plant called dragon's blood sent to him by Pieter Hotton with Letter L-425

Date: 
September 16, 1704
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-426
Collected Letters number: 
250
Collected Letters volume: 
15

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about leaves of aloe and a plant called dragon's blood that had been sent to him by Pieter Hotton with Letter L-425

Description of epidermal cells, a part of the system of vascular bundles, oxalate crystals, spiral vessels, and mucilage cells of the leaf of a species of Aloe. Observation of discoloration of the sap of the Aloe. Description of coloured cells in the red-veined dock.

Aloe" plant: its epidermal cells; sap; calcium oxalate crystals in the raphide bundles; vascular bundles; spiral vessels; mucilage cells. Red-veined dock.