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In figure 32 /' on the main trunk is reproduced in natural size, in order to 

 show that, like "open canker," the wounded surface consists of many very 

 small, over-growth edges of different years which recede like terraces. 



In accordance with the paltry branch growth in figure 31, the root is 

 also small ; it cannot follow its natural tendency to send its tap root downward 



Fig. 31. A moor pine with flatly extended roots from the LUneburger moor. (Orig.) 

 a dead tips of branches, k parts of the branch which have t;rown out at sharp angles, k' parts of the branch 

 curved like bows, / frost wound where the branch leaves the trunk, f frost wound in the form of an oijen 

 canker with a distinctly limited wood body, /; roots which had grown ajjainst the layer of meadow ore. 



perpendicularly (compare figures 5 and 6, p. 95), but must extend 

 its root branches in the upper soil layers and moss cushions. Part of the lowest 

 root branches are partially bent upwards at a sharp angle, probably because 

 they have met with a layer of swamp ore or some similar impenetrable body. 



