. A manual of botany. Botany. TISSUE SYSTEMS 337 FlCf. 718. {fig. 719, h). In the leaves ofoertain Monocotyledons it consists of aqueous tissue, being made up of thin-walled parenchymatous cells which contain little more than water, and are packed close together without intercellular spaces. Some succulent leaves have their ground tissue entirely composed of this. The general ground tissue shows a peculiar character in foliage leaves, the cells, though parenchymatous, not being at all like those of the stem. On one or both sides they are found to be elongated and ar- ranged in one or several r
. A manual of botany. Botany. TISSUE SYSTEMS 337 FlCf. 718. {fig. 719, h). In the leaves ofoertain Monocotyledons it consists of aqueous tissue, being made up of thin-walled parenchymatous cells which contain little more than water, and are packed close together without intercellular spaces. Some succulent leaves have their ground tissue entirely composed of this. The general ground tissue shows a peculiar character in foliage leaves, the cells, though parenchymatous, not being at all like those of the stem. On one or both sides they are found to be elongated and ar- ranged in one or several rows, with their long axes at right angles to the sur- face. They have anumber of ehloroplasts embedded intheirprotoplasm. From their mode of arrangement they have been ca,\\e A palisade tissue {fig. 720, ). If this tissue is only on the upper side of the leaf, the lower side shows more irregularly arranged chlorophyll- containing tissue which from the looseness of its arrangement. Fiff. 718. Outer part of root of Hyafiiuth. ep. Epiblema. pr. Exodermis. c. Cortex. X 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 Green, J. Reynolds (Joseph Reynolds), 1848-1914. London, J. & A. Churchill
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