. Special Morphology and Classification. RW es 
‘the Cycadece is similar, the large pith containing a quantity 
of starch (known as sago), and surrounded by a com- 
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Fic. 479.—Transverse section through the wood of the Scotch fir with moderately | 
large annual ring ; x x boundary of the annual ring; s silver-grain (x 200). 
paratively slightly developed wood. Gum-passages replace 
in them the resin-passages of the Coniferee. 
