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IN a recent communication1, it was recorded that a number of hydrocarbons, including pure paraffin, readily entered the air-spaces of a leaf strip placed vertically in contact with the surface of these liquids, and could also be observed to flow readily over the surface of the exposed mesophyll and cascade down and fill the interspaces. Water, on the contrary, will neither flow over the surface nor fill the interspaces under any conditions, without a pressure gradient.
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LEWIS, F. Nature of the Outer Surface of the Cell Walls of the Mesophyll of the Leaf. Nature 141, 34 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141034a0
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