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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 684

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he should proceed with itafter the manner of other hard substances which need to be reducedby grinding. Epiderm of Leaves.—On all the softer parts of the higher plants,save such as grow under water, we find a surface layer differing inits texture from the parenchyme beneath, and constituting a… … Fig. 498.—Epiderm of leaf of Fig. 499.—Epiderm of leaf of Indian Yucca, showing stomates. com (Zea Mais), showing stomates. stratum (figs 502, 504, a, a). The shape of these cells is different inalmost every tribe of plants ; thus in the epiderm of the Yucca (fig.498), Indian corn (fig. 499), Iris…

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