Title
Page 66 – Trichomes
Creator
Date
c. 1940
Format
Description
Fig. 59 . Trichomes. Abaxial surface of the basal region of a young, i.e., prechlorophyllaceous, leaf from the center of the leafy terminus of the stem (the so-called "crown" or "top"), to show the heads of triehomes in each of two adjacent furrows. As the heads enlarge with growth their margins overlap one another in the furrow, A. With continued growth, "they approach those from an adjacent furrow, B, finally overlapping one another on the top of the ridge between, C. ri, ridge, showing epidermal cells, each containg a silica body, and thm, marginal cells of various trichome heads, X400.