The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . ss. These hairs entirely!disappear with increasing structure of the epidefmis of!the under side of the leaf, withits contorted cells, is represented( X 160) in fig. 3. A further char,acteristic feature of the cellularstructure of the teu-leaf is theabundance, especially in grownleaves, of large, branching, thick-,walled, smooth cells (idioblasts),,which, although they o


The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . ss. These hairs entirely!disappear with increasing structure of the epidefmis of!the under side of the leaf, withits contorted cells, is represented( X 160) in fig. 3. A further char,acteristic feature of the cellularstructure of the teu-leaf is theabundance, especially in grownleaves, of large, branching, thick-,walled, smooth cells (idioblasts),,which, although they occur inother leaves, are not found in suchas are likely to be confounded^.with or substituted for The,minute structure of the leaf^.in? section is illustrated in fig. vRatige of The cultivated varieties of tea7growth, being comparatively hardy, possess p^^ 2. —T«a-Leaf—full size,an adaptability to climate excelled. ^ _among food plants only by the wheat. The limits of actualtea cultivation extend from 39° N. lat. in Japan, throughthe tropics, to Java, Australia, Natal, and Brazil in thesouthern hemisphere. The tea-plant will even live in theopen air in the sonth , and Fio 3.—EpidermisTr Tea-Lcaf (uncler side)..


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