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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 20

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16 a different manner from those of the Tobacco. The plant hair found on the leaf scales of the ash, differ greatly from those just studied. They are multicellular, the cells being very irregular and assuming a flabellate form. (Fig. 3.) As the scales form a covering to the buds in the winter and early spring, the presence of the hairs with their secretions may serve to shut out moisture and the young buds dry and warm. On the leaves of the Butternut there are found two kinds of plant hairs. (Fig. 4) One kind being
 
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