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In a young stem the pith is a water-storing tissue. The 
primary cortex includes bundles of bast at regular intervals. 
Outside is the green outer cortex with its cells slightly 
palisade-like. 
Zygophyllum Fabago and miniatum both have broader 
leaves and shorter branches than Z. Eichwaldii. 
The leaves of Peganum Harmala are repeatedly furcate 
with linear segments. The branches lie prostrate on the 
ground like those of Zygophyllum. It flowers in spring 
and the shoots wither during the summer. (comp. VOLKENS 
p. 114.) 
A SK = ist C 
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Fig. 61. Stalice ololepis. A, Transverse section of inflo- 
rescence-axis. The wood is black, the white holes indi- 
cate vascular bundles which are also present within 
the ring. B and C, Details of A; B shows a gland and 
a stoma. A, X 47; Band C, X 203. 
Statice otolepis Schrenk. 
This species has large broad basal leaves which are 
dorsiventral with two layers of palisades on the upper side, 
and spongy tissue with stomata on the lower. These leaves 
die on the approach of summer. Meanwhile the plant has 
