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Excerpt from Reports and Papers on Botany
The organization of the Stem of Palms undoubtedly exhibits common characters throughout all species: it is simple (except in Hyp/mne), almost cylindrical, generally upright, encircled by the scars of the leaves which sur round the stem, but without true nodes; fixed to the earth by slender fibrous roots; having at the apex a tuft of leaves, in the axils of which stand the spadices. The internal structure is, generally speaking, as follows: the groundwork of the whole stem is an uniform, lax paren chyma, in which lie, scattered irregularly, slender vascular bundles, running apparently parallel with the axis of the stem; those lying nearest to the circumference of the stem are mostly thicker; of a more woody consistence, and placed closer together than those situated in the interior; from this circumstance, the stem often possesses yery considerable solidity toward the periphery.
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