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till Augufty but the ringlet 1 3 did not in- 

 crcafcatall, and in Auguft the whole (hoot 

 a a withered and dyed } but the moot / /, 

 lives and thrives well, each of its ringlets 

 fwelling much at the bottom : Which fwel- 

 lings at their bottoms muft be attributed 

 to fome other caufe than the (toppage of 

 the fap in its return downwards, becaufe in 

 the (hoot / /, its return downwards is in- 

 tercepted three feveral times by cutting a- 

 way the bark at 1, 4> *• The larger and 

 more thriving the leaf bearing Bud was, and 

 the more leaves it had on it, fo much the 

 more did the adjoining bark fwell at the 



bottom. 



Fig. 30. Rcprefents the profile of one of the 



divifions in Fig. 28. fplit in halves, in which 

 may be feen the manner of the growth of 

 the laft year's ringlet of wood mooting a lit- 

 tle upwards at x x •, and (hooting down- 

 wards and fwelling much more at z z ? 

 where we may obferve, that what is fhot 

 endways, is plainly parted from the wood 

 of the preceding year, by the narrow in- 

 terftices x r, z r, whence it mould feem, 

 that the growth, of the yearly new ringlets 



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