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this pure mountain type of the Ragged 

 Robin (Clarissa laciniosa), Fig. 1 8 ; and 

 compare A, and B, Line-study II. ; while, 

 on the other hand, the monocot plants 

 are by close analysfc, I think, always 

 resolvable into successively climbing 

 leaves, sessile on one another, and 

 sending their roots, or processes, for 

 nourishment, down through one another, 

 as in Fig. 19. 



4. Not that I am yet clear, at all, 

 myself; but I do think it's more the 

 botanists' fault than mine, what ' coty- 

 ledonous' structure there may be at the 

 outer base of each successive bud ; and 

 still less, how the intervenient length of 

 stem, in the bicots, is related to their 

 power, or law, of branching. For not 

 only the two-leaved tree is outlaid, and 

 the one-leaved inlaid, but the 

 two-leaved tree is branched, 

 and the one-leaved tree is 

 not branched. This is a 

 most vital and important 

 distinction, which I state to 

 you in very bold terms, for 

 Fig. 18. - Fig. 19. 



