. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. FiG. 34. — Part of the leaf skele- ton of a rubber plant. The soft parts of the leaf have been re- moved. The smallest veins of all do not show in the picture. — Photo, by Land. stance feeds and from which it is renewed. 26. Inside the Leaf. — Here are dim, green spaces be- tween loose, thin-walled cells. The light filters through. The tissue under the epidermis is called the meso- phyll. {Meso means in the ''^LC!'"VW*OrXJO'™'^%SWC"^^'' midst of
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. FiG. 34. — Part of the leaf skele- ton of a rubber plant. The soft parts of the leaf have been re- moved. The smallest veins of all do not show in the picture. — Photo, by Land. stance feeds and from which it is renewed. 26. Inside the Leaf. — Here are dim, green spaces be- tween loose, thin-walled cells. The light filters through. The tissue under the epidermis is called the meso- phyll. {Meso means in the ''^LC!'"VW*OrXJO'™'^%SWC"^^'' midst of ; phyll means leaf.) Under the upper epidermis a layer of the mesophyll forms what is called the palisade tissue. (See Figure j6.) The cells of the paHsade stand closely side by side, like logs. Fig. 35. — The ending of one of the smallest veins in the mesophyll; /, a water-conducting vessel; i, an intercellular 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 Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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