THE EPIDERMAL SYSTEM. 



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the tooth to the water-cavity ; in the tooth it becomes greatly enlarged, 

 and is there composed of spiral cells (trachei'des), which surround a 

 central mass of narrow elongated parenchymatous cells (Fig. 95, e, g\ 

 The bundle terminates by the free ends of the parenchyma-cells extend- 



Pig. 95. Vertical section of a leaf-tooth of FucJisla globosa. a, vertical longitudi- 

 nal section of water-pore ; b, water-cavity ; c, tracheldes ; d, chlorophyll-bearing 

 parenchyma ; e, large cell containing raphides ; /, hair ; g, parenchyma of the flbro- 

 -vascular bundle. The lower part of the figure passes into the leaf-blade. X 125. 

 After Arthur. / 



ing loosely into the water-cavity. Between the bundle and the epider- 

 mis of the leaf-tooth lie two or three cell layers of ordinary chlorophyll- 

 bearing parenchyma, in which there are occasionally large cells con- 

 taining raphides (Fig. 94, cp and ra).* 



* The foregoing account of the water-pores of Fuchsia globosa, and 

 the drawings for Figs. 93-4-5, are taken from an unpublished paper 

 on " The Water-Pores of Fuchsia globosa" by J. C. Arthur. 



