Fig. 270. Magnified view of a section of mealy (Honduras) sarsaparilla.

a. Cuticle or epidermis.
b. Outer cortical layers.
c. Mealy coat, or inner cortical layers.
d. Cellular sheath.
e. Woody zone.
f. Medulla or pith.

This image is from Sarsaparilla in Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1854.