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e. The cambium zone : made up of cloudy-looking, 

 small, angular, thin- walled cells. 



f. Liber-cells ; fusiform and thick-walled. 



g. More parenchymatous cells: containing chloro- 

 phyll. 



h. Epidermis: composed apparently of cubical 

 colourless cells : here and there the opening of a 

 stomate (d. 4. /3.) may be seen. 



Draw the section. 



5. Compare the transverse and longitudinal sections 

 together, making out the corresponding parts in each. 



G. 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. 



j3. The four to six oval leaflets attached laterally 

 to the stalk. 



7. The pair of small leaf-like expansions (stipules) 

 at the base of the petiole. 



8. The rudimentary tendril terminating the pe- 

 tiole. 



