. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. Fio. LEAVES. The four leavcs have similar veins, but are differently filled ir. Carry the starving of the cellular tissue a little further still, and we have a deeply-indented leaf iike that of the castor-oil plant. Finally, let the spaces unfilled go right down to the common centre from which the ribs radiate, and we get a divided or compound leaf, like that of the horse- chestnut, with three, five, or seven separate leaflets. (See Fig. 5, No. i.) Similarly with the feather-veined type (Fig 3)- the spaces between the ribs may be m
. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. Fio. LEAVES. The four leavcs have similar veins, but are differently filled ir. Carry the starving of the cellular tissue a little further still, and we have a deeply-indented leaf iike that of the castor-oil plant. Finally, let the spaces unfilled go right down to the common centre from which the ribs radiate, and we get a divided or compound leaf, like that of the horse- chestnut, with three, five, or seven separate leaflets. (See Fig. 5, No. i.) Similarly with the feather-veined type (Fig 3)- the spaces between the ribs may be more or less niled with cellular tissue in any degree you. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : Hodder and Stoughton
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