1st Anniversary Episode: A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses, Reading 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It's our One Year Anniversary! Let's return to the book that kicked off our boring bedtime journey, and revel in the relaxation of A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses. Thank you to each and every one of you lovely listeners for supporting us. We look forward to boring you even more in the coming year.
Support us on Patreon and get exclusive perks:
https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod
Read "A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses" at Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24063
Follow and chat with us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/boringbookspod
Music: "Dream Loop" (DL Music) is licensed under CC
All Boring Books for Bedtime readings are taken from works in the public domain. If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, send a recommendation on Twitter, on our website, or on Patreon. I'd love to hear from you!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once. |
| 0:15.0 | So lie back, adjust your volume. |
| 0:20.0 | Take a nice deep breath. |
| 0:22.0 | And off we go. |
| 0:25.0 | Tonight is a very special episode of Boring Books for Bedtime. |
| 0:30.0 | It's our one-year anniversary, and I'd like to thank the thousands of listeners who have tuned |
| 0:36.4 | in and supported us this year. |
| 0:39.1 | We've grown from absolutely nothing to a little bit of a something and I really appreciate your support. |
| 0:46.8 | In honor of our one-year anniversary, we're returning to the book that started it all. Tonight we're reading a handbook of some |
| 0:56.3 | South Indian grasses by K Ranga Akariar, L.T. Indian Agriculture Service, Agricultural College Coimbatore, and Fellow of the Madras University, assisted by C. Taddalinga Modalear, FLS, Agricultural College Coimbatore, Coimbatore, printed by the Superintendent Government Press Madras, |
| 1:29.7 | 1921. Let's pick up right where we left off. |
| 1:37.0 | Chapter 4. Histology of the |
| 1:57.8 | In all grasses, numerous threads are found running longitudinally within the stem and some of these pass into the leaves at the nodes and run as nerves in the blades of the leaves. |
| 2:07.0 | These threads are the vascular bundles. |
| 2:12.0 | The rest of the tissue of the stem. vascular bundles. |
| 2:13.2 | The rest of the tissue of the stem and leaves consists of thin-walled parencomata cells of different |
| 2:21.0 | sorts. The general structure of these bundles is more or less the same in all |
| 2:28.1 | grasses. A vascular bundle consists of only xyleum and phloum without the cambium, and so no secondary thickening can take place in the stems of grasses. Such bundles as these are called closed vascular |
| 2:49.2 | bundles to distinguish them from the dye co-tillidinous type of vascular bundles, which are called |
| 2:57.9 | open vascular bundles on account of the existence of the chambium. |
| 3:05.0 | The component parts and elements of which the vascular bundles and grasses are composed |
| 3:11.0 | may be learnt by studying the transverse and longitudinal sections of these bundles in any grass. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sharon Handy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sharon Handy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.