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PROSERPINA. 



of the liber between the cambium and the wood is not 



marked in Figure 96 ; but the cambium is number 5, 



and the liber outside of it is number 6, the Endophloeum 



of his note. 



Having got himself into this piece of lovely confusion, 



he proceeds to give a figure of the wood in the second 

 year, which I think he has bor- 

 rowed, without acknowledgment, 

 from Figuier, omitting a piece 

 of Figuier's woodcut which is 

 unexplained in Figuier's text. I 

 will spare my readers the work 

 I have had to do, in order to get 

 the statements on either side 

 clarified : but I think they will 

 find, if they care to work through 

 the wilderness of the two au- 

 thors' wits, that this which fol- 

 lows is the sum of what they have 

 effectively to tell us ; with the 

 collated list of the main questions 



they leave unanswered and, worse, unasked. 



18. An ordinary tree branch, in transverse section, 



consists essentially of three parts only, the Pith, Wood, 



and Bark. 



The pith is in full animation during the first year 



that is to say, during the actual shooting of the wood. 



We are left to infer that in the second year, the pith of 



FIG. 26. 



