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bluish-white powder, which can be readily wiped off with the 



fingers, as from the surface 

 of fruits, such as plums or 

 grapes, the leaf of cab- 

 bage, or the stalk of sugar- 

 cane (fig. 366). The in- 

 terior layers of the wall of 

 the epidermis are some- 

 times converted into mu- 

 cilage, which retards the 

 evaporation of water. 

 The sinking of the sto- 

 mata below the general 







FIG. 364. 



FIG. 363. Stellate hairs oiDraba 

 Thomasii, seen from above. 

 Magnified about 50 diam. 

 After Kerner. 



FIG. 364. T-shaped hairs of Ar- 

 temisia tnutellina. Magnified 

 about 50 diam. After Kerner. 



FIG. 365. Shieldlike scales of an 

 oleaster {Eleeagnus angusti- 

 folia), seen from above. Mag- 

 nified about 50 diam. After 

 Kerner. 

 FIG. 365. 



level (fig. 367), their arrangement in pits (fig. 368) or in 

 grooves (fig. 357), and their restriction to the under side of 

 the leaf (fig. 359) may be looked upon as further epidermal 



