Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 659
cubes or elongated prisms, as in fig. 466. A very good example ofsuch a cellular parenchyrne is to be found in the substance known asrice-paper, which is made by cutting the herbaceous stem of aChinese plant termed xiralia papyrifera vertically round and round 6l2 MICBOSCOPIC STBUCTUKE OF… … with a long sharp knife, so that its tissues may be (as it were) unrolledin a sheet. The shape of its cells when thus prepared is irregularlyprismatic, as shown in fig. 467, B ; but if the stem be cut transversely, ,their outlines are seen to be circular or nearly so (A). When, asoften happens, the…
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