326 The Botanical Gazette. 
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of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root. Our 
has attached to the stem a shell-work of ice, of 
whiteness, beautifully striated, sometimes, like a s 
shells one in another—at others curved round on eit er 
of them like an open, polished, bi-valve; then, in o} 
again, curled over in every variety of form, like the pe 
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bud underground.”—Bayv. ] 
