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cxcrefcence, which is fometimes found on a 

 leading branch, called a wreathed fafcia. The 

 fafciated branch is twifted, and curled in a 

 very beautiful form ; which form it probably 

 takes, as Dr. Plot fuppofes, from too quick 

 an afcent of the fap * : or as other naturalifls 

 imagine, from the punclure of fome infe<5l in 

 the tender twig, which diverts the fap from 

 it's ufual channel, and makes the branch 

 monflrous. The wreathed fafcia is fometimes 

 found in other wood, in the willow parti- 

 cularly, and in the holly ; but moft commonly 

 it is an excrefcence of the am. J have a 

 fafciated branch of am, found in the woods 

 of Beaulieu in new-foreft, which is moil 

 elegantly twifted in the form of a crozier. 

 I have feen a holly alfo twifted like a ram's 

 horn. We have this appearance fometimes in 

 afparagus, 



It is not uncommon for the feeds of 

 trees, and particularly of the am, to feize 

 on fome faulty part of a neighbouring trunk, 

 and there ftrike root. Dr. Plot-f fpeaks of 



* See Nat. Hift. Oxf. ch. vi. fee. 82. 

 f See Nat. Hift. Oxf. ch. vi. fee. 79. 



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