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Fig. 10.2-5. Transverse section of tobacco stem (Nicotiana tabacum). This epidermis has a cuticle so thin that it is not really visible here. On the microscope, close examination at high power reveals a small amount of pink-stained cuticle, but only very little. However, a cuticle is present; even the protoderm in meristems has a cuticle.