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FLOWER-LAND. 



If you look at the 

 picture of part of a 

 stalk which has been 

 cut across in Fig. 152, 

 you will see the fibro- 

 vascular bundles or 

 tissue very plainly. 



(4) All other tissues 

 of which plants are 

 made up, besides the 

 epidermal and the 



fibre-vascular tissues. 

 Fig. 152. Part of leafstalk of Hellebore 



(transverse section). e t epidermis ; are Spoken of generally 

 /, fibro- vascular system ; g, funda- , 



mental tissue. as fundamental* tissue. 



It consists largely of parenchyma (p. 167), and you can 

 find examples of it in the softer parts of leaves and 

 herbaceous stems, in the pith of elder, etc., in the 

 pulp of fruits, in the shell of the walnut, or the stone 

 of the plum or peach. 



I hope you will not be disheartened at these 

 three systems or formations of tissue, with their long 

 names coming all together. Think of what the names 

 mean, that you may understand generally what the 

 tissues are. Take another general look at them in 

 Fig. 152, and I will tell you a little more particularly 

 about them when I tell you about wood and bark in 

 another chapter. 



* From the Latin "fundamcntum," from " futtdo," I found, serving 

 for the foundation. 



