TISRI

The first Hebrew month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year. It corresponds to part of September and October. TISSUE, in Plants, the thin membranous organization of which every part is composed, microscopical in size, and often appearing to the naked eye homogeneous, although it consists of a great variety of forms closely compacted. Vegetable anatomists regard its primitive form as spheroidal, and that the tubes and spiral ve els are mere extensions of that form. Ti ue appears to be in all plants of the same nature originally, but it soon becomes altered by the deposition of various secretions upon its sides. [s. 1254]