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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 32

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28 to spray forth as the rind is broken. The glands are formed by the in-folding of the epidermis; they are oval in form, surrounded bu elongated supporting cells and are lined by very thin-walled, nucleated secreting cells, which correspond to the outer epidermal cells. Fig. 1. Plate IV represents a section showing two large glands in the rind of the orange, with the fundamental tissue between and surrounding them. In the orange leaf the same characteristic glands appear. They occupy as a rule the lower part of the leaf but occassionally one or two are found on the upper part.
 
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