Histology of medicinal plantsMansfield, William James
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Histology of medicinal plants
Mansfield, William James
Botany, Medical; Plant anatomy
=Secretion cavities= are divided into three groups, according to the
nature of the origin of the cavity: first, schizogenous cavities,
which originate by a separation of the walls of the secretion cells;
secondly, lysigenous cavities, which arise by the dissolution
of the walls of centrally located secretion cells; and thirdly,
schizo-lysigenous cavities, which originate schizogenously, but later
become lysigenous owing to the dissolution of the outer layers of the
secretion cells.
[Illustration: PLATE 61
STALKED GLANDULAR HAIRS
1. Belladonna leaf (_Atropa belladonna_, L.).
2. Geranium stem (_Geranium maculatum_, L.).
3. Henbane leaf (_Hyoscyamus niger_, L.).
4. Tobacco leaf (_Nicotiana tabacum_, L.).]
SCHIZOGENOUS CAVITIES
=Schizogenous cavities= occur in white pine bark (Plate 62, Fig.
B). The cells lining the cavity are mostly tangentially elongated,
and the wall extends into the cavity in the form of a papillate
projection. Immediately back from these cells are two or three layers
of cells which resemble cortical parenchyma cells, except that they
are smaller and their walls are thinner.
In white pine bark there is a single layer of thin-walled cells
lining the cavity. Immediately surrounding the secretion cells is a
single layer of thick-walled fibrous cells.
In klip buchu (Plate 63, Fig. B), as in white pine leaf (Plate 64,
Fig. B), there is a single layer of thin-walled secretion cells which
are surrounded on three sides with parenchyma cells and on the outer
side by epidermal cells.
LYSIGENOUS CAVITIES
=Lysigenous cavities= occur on the rind of citrus fruits--bitter and
sweet orange, lemon, grapefruit, lime, etc., and in the leaves of
garden rue, etc.
In bitter orange peel, (Plate 64, Fig. A) the cavity is very
large, and the cells bordering the cavity are broken and partially
dissolved. The entire cells back of these are white, thin-walled,
tangentially elongated cells. There is a great variation in the size
of these cavities, the smaller cavities being the recently formed
cavities.
SCHIZO-LYSIGENOUS CAVITIES
=Schizo-lysigenous= cavities are formed in white pine bark and many
other plants owing to the increase in diameter of the stem. In such
cases the walls of the secreting cells break down. The resulting
cavity resembles lysigenous cavities.
=Unicellular secretion cavities= occur in ginger, aloe, calamus, and
in canella alba barb.
[Illustration: PLATE 62
_A._ Cross-section of calamus rhizome (_Acorus calamus_, L.). 1,
Intercellular space; 2, Parenchyma cells; 3, Secretion cavity.
_B._ Cross-section of white pine bark (_Pinus strobus_, L.). 1,
Parenchyma; 2, Secretion cavity; 3, Secretion cells.]
[Illustration: PLATE 63
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