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required by the spinner and weaver. Flax , after its 
final preparation, consists of bundles of structureless 
tubes (Fig. 68, a) which are seen separated in Fig. 69, 
each fibre exhibiting a central line. 
Similar bundles of woodv tissue occur in the “ China- 
grass ” of commerce, which is said to be obtained 
from a plant of the Nettle tribe, and is brought to 
this country in the form of coarse fibres, two of these 
are represented in Fig. 68, c. After being hackled, 
FIG. 68. 
A P. C 
a, bundle of woody fibres of the Flax plant, b, two of the ultimate fibres of 
the leaf of the Pine-ajjple. c, two woody fibres of the China-grass plant. 
macerated, and bleached, it is made into very delicate 
shining linen handkerchiefs, the material of which is 
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