The textile fibres; their physical, microscopical, and chemical properties (1904)
Matthews, J. Merritt (Joseph Merritt), 1874-1931 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 220
, HEMP, AND MINOR VEGETABLE FIBRES. 207 52). The points terminate abruptly and are not sharp, and thereappear to be a large number of pore-canals penetrating the cell-wall. On the external surface the fibre-bundles are occasionallycovered with small lens-shaped, silicified stegmata, about 15 /<… … Fig. 52.—Coir Fibre.s, serrations in wall of lumen; p, pores in wall; si, silicious skeleton from stegmata. hanging together in the form of round, silicious skeletons. Thecross-section of the fibre is oval in shape and yellowish brown incolor, and enclosed in a network of median layers. Coir fibre…
Textile fibers
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