. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Plantsin leaf. A, cluster of spikelets. B, spikelet with stamens , flower. (LeMaout and Decaisne, Knuth.)—A tree attaining 26 height; stems hollow; leaves rough; flowers concealed by bracts;fruit a grain. 70. Pseudo-fibers are commonly more or less spongymasses of material which are most useful as absorbents, al-though serving also for other purposes. Amadou and peat-moss are good examples. Amadou or spuuk is a felt-like layer of exceedingly slenderfibrils found within the rind of a shelf fungus (Fig. 226). Itsmost important
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Plantsin leaf. A, cluster of spikelets. B, spikelet with stamens , flower. (LeMaout and Decaisne, Knuth.)—A tree attaining 26 height; stems hollow; leaves rough; flowers concealed by bracts;fruit a grain. 70. Pseudo-fibers are commonly more or less spongymasses of material which are most useful as absorbents, al-though serving also for other purposes. Amadou and peat-moss are good examples. Amadou or spuuk is a felt-like layer of exceedingly slenderfibrils found within the rind of a shelf fungus (Fig. 226). Itsmost important use is as an absorbent in dentistry. Sheetsof it resemble chamois or ooze leather and have been usedfor caps, table mats, etc. Peat moss (Fig. 227) is largely used as packing is especially valued by horticulturists on account of the 240 INDUSTRIAL PLANTS readiness with which masses of the jilant absorb and retainmoisture. 71. Woody fibers as here understood, are either slendertwigs with the l)ark removed, or timber mechanically re-. Fio. 225.—Vegetable Sponge (Luffa wgyptiaca. Gourd Family, Cucurhita-cece). Tip of vine showing leaves, tendrils, and 5oung flowers, flower, with corolla spread open. Pistillate flower, eutvertically. Fruit, j. Same, cut across. (Redrawn (roni Duthie andFuller.)—Annual vine; leaves rough; flowers yellow; fruit 30-100 , greenish with ten darker ribs. Native home, tropics of the OldWorld. WOOD IX GENERAL 241 duced to strips or shreds, or else chemically treated so as toseparate the ultimate fibrils for paper pulp. Osiers fromvarious species of willow (Fig. 228) afford wood} fibers ofthe first kind which are extensively used for flat strips of willow, poplar (Fig. 253), and other softwoods form the chip of which chip hats are braided. Similarstrips of ash (Fig. 245), hickory (Fig. 30), and other hardwoods which spht easily and evenly make the splint which iswoven into large market baskets, chair bot
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