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Vegetable secretions and the means by which by are effected by Kate L. Hudson, 1888

Vegetable secretions and the means by which by are effected by Kate L. Hudson, 1888, Page 15

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11 secreting cells. Secretion is carried on the, by cells, whether singly or combined, which are glandular in function but which morphologically considered may not be in the strictest sense a gland. For a gland, according to anatomists, is a mass of cells set apart for the special purpose of secretion, and we have for good examples of this, in plants, only our resin ducts and latex tubes. But while the plants, in the majority of cases, assume the work of secretion in a very humble manner, still the highest forms of glands
 
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