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it, we find its beauty and variety wonderfully 

 augmented by the manifold differences of its hair 

 appendages. Hairs have we of every form, simple 

 as in most plants, stellate or star-sbaped (Figj 

 110 b), beaded, forked (Pig. 110 a), gland-bearing 

 (Pig.. 110 c), and soft as down, satiny, as in tbe 

 mountain lady's-mantle, or stiff and rough, until 

 they go a step farther and become hardened into 

 the prickles of our roses and brambles ; venemoue. 



Fig. 110,^— Hairs from plant surfaces inagnified, A> Forked hair; B, 

 StoUatn or star-sfaaped ; C, Branched and gland-bearing hair ; D, Tubnlar 

 hair of nettle with poison-gland at its base. 



tooj are some hairs, as the nettle frequently reminds 

 us, whilst some of the glandular kind Secrete an 

 oily, sticky fluid ; lastly, we have the chaffy scale 

 clothing of the young ferns, another cuticular ap- 

 pendage. It would be superfluous to offer our 

 readers many examples of a plant character so 

 easily accessible as the hair appendages of the 

 cuticle, and we would not deprive them of the 



