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were blackened by bacterial action and were unhesitatingly 

 pronounced dead. The circumstances were such as to leave no 

 manner of doubt that the new growth had come from part of 

 this supposedly dead material, for the new shoots were coming 



Photograph by R. F. Griggs 



RUBUS PEDATUS GROWN THROUGH THE ASH. 

 This species did not reappear in numbers until three years after the eruption. 



out of old rhizomes still embedded in the clods, as I myself had 

 removed than the year before in establishing one of the vegeta- 

 tion stations. The material was, moreover, lying on a bare ask 

 flat without other vegetation for many feet round about. 



