SECT. VII. APPENDAGES. 



and the base at the fork or circumference. The 

 subdivisions of the branch are formed in the same 

 manner, and so also the divisions and subdivisions 

 of the root, except in the extreme fibres, the pro- 

 duction of the present year ; which consist merely 

 of a mass of pulp surrounded with a bark, and 

 which seem in some degree to resemble the leaves 

 of the caudex ascendens, as they are said to be 

 renewed annually. 



SECTION VII. 



Appendages. 



THE Appendages of the Plant, whether conserv- 

 ative or reproductive, exhibit nothing in their struc- 

 ture that is at all essentially different from that of 

 the organs that have been already described. 



The tendrils, stipulae, and ramenta, which are 

 proper to the conservative organs, resemble the leaf, 

 or leaf-stalk. The involucre, spathe, and bracte, 

 which, together with the nectary, are proper to the 

 flower, resemble the leaf, calyx, or corolla. And 

 the appendages of the fruit, which have indeed Reducible 

 been originally a part or appendage of the flower, mem" 



together with the appendages of the seed, are all 

 ultimately resolvable into membrane, pulp, or fibre. fibre - 



But the organs denominated glands, or included Glands. 

 under the designation of pubescence, deserve to be 

 somewhat more particularly noticed ; not on ac- 



