DISARTICULATION OF BUANCUES. 



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either its right or its left side. In the Eoyal Gardens, Kcw, are 

 plants from two sources ; in one case the buds are on the right, 



Fitis macropus, Welwitsch. Sketches from a living specimen growing in 

 Kew GardcnB. A, tlie entire plant, considerably reduced: a, the swollen base 

 of the stem ; h, line marking where last year's branch was thrown off ; c, ano- 

 ther line indicating the position of next disarticulation, the interval between h 

 and c being the permanent portion of current year's growth; d, portion (all 

 above r) which falls off with the leaves. B, another draw ing, of natural size, 

 of the parts of flg. A between the letters h and d. At c in this figure an in- 

 terspace is given to show the mode of disarticulation of the year's growth from 

 that part of the stem which remain.s. 



and in the other on the left side 



Antiains toxicaria has tlie 



same habit of detaching its branches at the point of insertion. 

 The scars do not always remain round, as in the illustrations, but 



* The plants have further developed since writing the above, and show that 

 oxceptions maj occur, the buds changing side in part or throughout the entire 

 grnwth. 



