Columella reduced to a thin layer of scales and granules upon the brownish basal membrane.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
There were then as now the beautiful arches; there were the fragments of the temple porches, with their pillars; there was the "unknown column with the buried base"; there were all the elements of emotion and meditation; and it is possible that sentiment has only been cumbered Avith the riches which archaeology has dug up for it by lowering the surface of the Cow Field fifteen or twenty feet; by scraping clean the buried pavements; by identifying the storied points; by multiplying the fragments of basal or columnar marbles and revealing the plans of temples and palaces and courts and tracing the Sacred Way on which the magnificence of the past went to dusty death.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Experiment 84.-Light a Bunsen flame, with the basal orifices open, and hold over it a fine wire gauze.
"An Introduction to Chemical Science"
R.P. Williams