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all exposed vegetative organs, but the leaves are primarily 

 the seats of their occurrence. The palisade and general 

 parenchyma cells of the leaf ordinarily contain many 



FIG. 55. Abutilon ; looking down upon the plant shown in Fig. 54. 



chloroplasts (Fig. 25). Such tissue is designated chlor- 

 enchyma. In stems or other thick organs the chloren- 

 chyma is comparatively near the surface; for, as a rule, the 

 formation of chlorophyll is directly or indirectly dependent 



