. The microscopy of vegetable foods, with special reference to the detection of adulteration and the diagnosis of mixtures . Fig. 460. Malabar Cardamom. / longitudinalsection, X3. // cross section, X8. /> perisperm;e endosperm; em embryo. (Luerssen.) the endosperm and this in turn the minute embryo (Fig, 460).odor is agreeably aromatic, suggesting camphor, the taste biting. The HISTOLOGY. The Pericarp when dry is less than i mm. thick, but swells some-what in water. Cross-and tangential-sections are cut either wet or dry;surface preparations of the outer and inner layers are obtained by scr
. The microscopy of vegetable foods, with special reference to the detection of adulteration and the diagnosis of mixtures . Fig. 460. Malabar Cardamom. / longitudinalsection, X3. // cross section, X8. /> perisperm;e endosperm; em embryo. (Luerssen.) the endosperm and this in turn the minute embryo (Fig, 460).odor is agreeably aromatic, suggesting camphor, the taste biting. The HISTOLOGY. The Pericarp when dry is less than i mm. thick, but swells some-what in water. Cross-and tangential-sections are cut either wet or dry;surface preparations of the outer and inner layers are obtained by Fig. 461. Malabar Cardamom. Outerlayersof shell (pericarp). «/> epicarp,/> parenchymawith h resin cells. X160. (Moeller.) 1. Epicarp (Fig. 461, ep). The rounded polygonal cells often showmarked evidence of their formation by the division of mother cells. 2. Mesocarp (p). A thin-wallcd, large-celled parenchyma forms the 544 SPICES AND CONDIMENTS. f ground tissue, in which are numerous smaller cells containing lemon-yellow or red-brown resin lumps (50 /<). The fibro-vascular bundleshave thin-walled spiral vessels (60 //), and _ moderately thickened bast fibers of about thesame diameter as the vessels. In the innerlayers the tissue is a spongy parenchyma ^ ^ (Fig. 462). 3. Endocarp (Fig. 462). The cells areusually longitudinally extended, but sometimes are irregularly arranged. ^
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