I collected the pollen from Powell Gardens just to make these slides.  Pollen is fascinating to look at.  It is different between dry and wet.  It is kinda flat when dry and swollen when wet.  Spikey buggers, no wonder they make you sneeze.  I t was like second nature to make these.  I have not used Canada Balsam to make permanent slides before.  But it did not slow me down.  The first slide is at 40x.  The second is at 10x because I could not find it at the higher magnifications.