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Excerpt from The Microscope, Vol. 2: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of Microscopy; New Series (Nos; 13-24;)
The stem of a fern is often of a deep brown color, very strong and hard. It owes these properties to a series of cells having very hard tissue called sclerenchyme. Within are series of bundles of Scalariform ducts (tracheides). They are so called from their presenting a regular ladder like appearance (scala, a A thin section cut obliquely across the stem displays very well the beauti ful structure of these ducts.
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