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Instances of Symphysis in Plants. 

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From a to b, 13 in. The circumference of the small limb at c, 16£ in. The circumference of the 

 trunk at c, exclusive of the small limb, 47£ in. 



pollard maple (^4 N cer campestre Z.), which has one root, but two 

 separate trunks, growing side by side, till they unite in a head 

 at about 3 ft. 9 in. from the ground ; each being nearly cylin- 

 drical and covered on the whole of the inner and great part of 

 the outer half by a rough and knotty bark full of seams and 

 scars; altogether presenting an appearance not unlike the 

 lower half of a man suffering, like Daphne, an Ovidian meta- 

 morphosis into a tree. In this case we may either suppose 

 that the centre has rotted away, and bark formed over the 

 wound, or that the appearance has been caused by some such 

 practice as that mentioned by White in his Natural History 

 of Selborne, letter 70. 



Park Hill, near Frome, Somersetshire, July 2. 1833. 



