Pharmaceutical botany - Lighthouse Survival Blog
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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY<br />
panying the tracheae (ducts). The walls of these fibres show oblique<br />
pores. Woody fibres are the supporting elements of the xylem.<br />
Hard Bast is composed of elongated, spindle-shaped, thick-walled<br />
elements called bast fibres. The characteristic thickening of the walls.<br />
Fig. 4.— ^Laticiferous vessels from the cortex of root of Scorozonora hispanica.<br />
A, as seen under low power, and B, a smaller portion under high power. {From<br />
Steiens after Sachs.)<br />
of these fibres is due to deposits of lignin upon the inner surface of the<br />
cellulose cell wall. Like the woody fibres the lumina of these contain<br />
air and the fibre walls are provided with oblique pores. Bast is the<br />
supporting tissue of the phloem.