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The Fixes of Australia. 



Figure 168. — Radial section at junction of inner and outer bark. The 

 lighter structure in left centre from top to bottom of 

 picture i; a periderm band. The bast fibres are the 

 narrow dark lines in the left or inner bark. They zre 

 more irregularly scattered through the outer bark, when 

 the parenchymatous cells can be plainly seen as well as 

 the sieve lubes, by the aid of a lens. C, Tasmanica,x 54- 



PlRure 169, -l-ofji-nii'iiiMl •^■ii'in ttironi;!) i>.irK, •^nowitit: .itnindancc ol 

 W'v plates in thf tubes vparatcd by parenchymatous 

 ccllv C. Tafmanica, x 350. 



Sections of bark of C. Tasmanica, nobis. 



