STRUCTURE.] 



R AMENTA. 



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absence of buds from their axils. The student must parti- 

 cularly remark this, or he will confound with them leaves 

 having a ramentacecus appearance, such as are produced 

 upon the young shoots of Pinus. Link remarks, that they 

 are very similar in structure to the leaves of Mosses. The 

 term striga has occasionally been applied to them (Dec. 

 Tlieor. Elem. ed. 2. 376. Link, EUm. 240.) ; but that word 

 was employed by Linna3us to designate any stiff bristle-like 

 process, as the spines of the Cactus, the divaricating hairs of 

 Malpighia, and the stiff stellated hairs of Hibiscus. So 

 vague an application of the term is very properly avoided at 

 the present day, and the substantive is rejected from modern 

 glossology ; the adjective term strigose is however occasionally 

 still employed to express a surface covered with stiff hairs. 



5. Of Glands. 



Fig. 16. 

 d f g h 



GLANDS are small collections of firm cellular tissue, which 

 is often much harder and more coloured than that which 

 surrounds it. They are of several kinds. 



Stalked glands (fig. 16. a, b, c, d,f, h, i, I, m, n,} are elevated 

 on a stalk which is either simple or branched : they secrete 

 some peculiar matter at their extremities, and are often con- 

 founded with the glandular hairs above described, from which 



