474 THE BEAN PLANT. [CHAP. 



. The bast vessels: larger elongated cells with 

 oblique perforated septa (sieve-tubes). 



*/. The bast fibres 1 , fusiform and thick-walled. 



c. More parenchymatous cells, constituting the cortex. 



d. Epidermis: composed apparently of cubical colour- 

 less cells : here and there the opening of a stoma 

 (d. 2. d. ft.) may be seen. 



Draw the section. 



5. Compare the transverse and longitudinal sections 

 together, making out the corresponding parts in each. 



6. Put on a high power, and examine each of the 

 above-mentioned tissues carefully. 



7. Stain with iodine: note the cell-walls; the protoplasm 

 its presence or absence, and relative quantity in 

 the various tissues; the nuclei of the cells; starch 

 granules in some, stained deep blue by the iodine. 



d. The leaves. 



1. Their form and composition, 



a. Each leaf consists of a number of different parts, 



viz. : 



a. The stalk or petiole, 

 ft. The four to six oval lea/lets attached laterally to 



the stalk, 

 y. The pair of small leaf-like expansions (stipules] 



at the base of the petiole. 

 8. The rudimentary tendril terminating the petiole. 



2. The histological structure of a leaflet. 



a. Imbed a leaflet in paraffin or hold it between two 

 bits of elder pith and cut a thin section from it, 



1 These fibres belong to the central cylinder, but do not, strictly 

 speaking, form part of the bundle. 



