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Primary xylem
Oak wood
Leaf vein
Vein ends
Bean seed
Pine tracheids, xs
Fern TE, xs
Fern, TE, mag
Annular walls
Annular, stretched
Annular, narrow
Scalariform walls
Scalar., narrow
CBP, pine
CBP, dicot
CBP, irregular
Contact faces
Pits, side view
CBP, pine, xs
CBP,angio, xs
CBP, fern, xs
Contact face, xs
Simple perf. plate 1
Simple perf. plate 2
Pitted perf. plate
Perf. plate & helix
Perf. plate, face
Perf. plate, mag
Perf. plate, section
Perf. plate rim
Perf. plate & wall
Scalariform Per plate
Primary xylem
Vessel sizes
Fern TE
Pine needle
VE precursor, ls
Protoxylem
9 Contact faces
VE precursor, xs
Precursor 2
Torn vessel
Torn vessel 2

Fig. 7.4-2. Transverse section of wood of grape vine (Vitis). It is quite common for vessels to be of many different sizes within a single plant. All the “empty” white cells are vessels (four marked with V), and some are more than ten times wider than others with a much greater conductive capacity. It would not be too unusual for fibers to be as wide as the narrowest vessels here, but they were never be as wide as the largest vessel in this micrograph.