CELTIS PALLIDA. 9 
With an increase in diameter of the stem characteristic changes take place, 
more particularly in the cortex, which greatly affect the topography of the 
chlorophyll apparatus. As the cortex becomes wider, rings of secondary 
hard bast are formed within the primary ring; parenchyma, which for the 
most part contains chlorophyll, extends between these rings. The groups 
of bast are connected in part or always by medullary rays. As the stem 
increases in diameter these groups are pushed farther and farther apart 
and the intervening portion becomes filled with parenchyma which contains 
chlorophyll. In this respect Ce/#s strikingly resembles Prosopis. The sec- 
ondary hard bast of the former, however, is not placed as regularly as in 
Prosopis, and the chlorophyll distribution, consequently, of Ce/tis is not so 
symmetrical as in the other species. 
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Fic. 3.—Celtis pallida: A, section of branch 4.5 mm. in diameter; B, detail of 4, 
showing presence of chlorophyll in secondary cortex; cam., cambium; ch. 6., cortical 
band of chlorophyll; 4. 4., hard bast; sed., medullary ray; £2., phellogen; fA. a, 
phelloderm. 
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But the greatest change in the chlorophyll apparatus occurs as a result 
of the formation of phelloderm. The cork-cambium arises in the cells imme- 
diately outside the chlorophyll band and by its activity gives rise to periderm 
without and phelloderm within. The latter contains chlorophyll. When 
the amount of phelloderm about equals the thickness of the chlorophyll 
band no more appears to be formed. The result is that the chlorophyll 
band of stems from 4 mm. to 1.6 cm. in diameter is about half phelloderm. 
How this relation is in older stems was not learned. 
How long the chlorophyll remains active in the stem was not determined. 
It is present in the outer portions of the pith in the stems 8.5 mm. diameter 
after it has disappeared from the medullary rays, but whether this is a con- 
