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Section III. 

 Of Lymphatic, or Non-glandular Hairs. 



The Non-glandular, or, as they are frequently 

 called, Lymphatic Hairs, are much more common than 

 the preceding, and resemble them in reality only m 

 their general form. They are filaments projecting from 

 the surface, and formed of one or several cellules ; they 

 have, as yet, only been classed with regard to their 

 external appearance, their consistence, their direction, 

 or their form. 



Thus, as regards their consistence, we remark, that 

 some are very tender, others very rigid, and most are of 

 all the intermediate degrees. With regard to their 

 direction, some are vertical, or perpendicular, to the 

 surface from which they spring ; some more or less in- 

 cKne forwards ; others more or less backwards ; some 

 are perfectly straight, others hooked at the point ; there 

 are several which are contracted, or which are interwoven 

 with one another. As to their form, they are found 

 as cylinders, and very cylindrically elongated cones. 

 They are sometimes seen in the form of reversed cones ; 

 among those that are ramified, they are found forked, 

 with two, three, or a greater number of branches ; or 

 starred at their apex, or divided at their base into 

 branches, which seem as so many distinct hairs reunited 

 into bundles, having a common base. 



I have enumerated in the Glossology all the different 

 modifications of the hairs, and the differences which they 

 cause in the external appearance of plants; and I have 



