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than in the wood. Nevertheless, as the wood is kept in 

 connection with the bark by the medullary rays, many 

 products which probably originate in the former are de- 

 posited in the wood." 



23. Now, at last, I see my way to useful summary of 

 the whole, which I had better give in a separate chapter : 

 and will try in future to do the preliminary work of 

 elaboration of the sap from my authorities, above shown, 

 in its process, to the reader, without making so much 

 fuss about it. But, I think in this case, it was desirable 

 that the floods of pros-, par-, peri-, dia-, and circumlocu- 

 tion, through which one has to wade towards any emer- 

 gent crag of fact in modern scientific books, should for 

 once be seen in the wasteful tide of them; that so I 

 might finally pray the younger students who feel, or re- 

 member, their disastrous sway, to cure themselves for 

 ever of the fatal habit of imagining that they know more 

 of anything after naming it unintelligibly, and thinking 

 about it impudently, than they did by loving sight of its 

 nameless being, and in wise confession of its boundless 

 mystery. 



In re-reading the text of this number I find a few er- 

 rata, noted below, and can besides secure my young read- 

 ers of some things left doubtful, as, for instance, in their 

 acceptance of the word ' Monacha,' for the flower described 

 in the sixth chapter. I have used it now habitually too 

 long to part with it myself, and I think it will be found 



