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Anatomy of the Vine. 



g, has its bundle of vascular texture raised up to k, to show 

 how distinct it is, and how easily it is removed from the liber 

 underneath ; its upper end separates into three divisions, and 

 they continue so up the stalk of the leaf, forming three bands, 

 or sets of vessels, I m n. 



The fourteenth, or f, division, has its vascular texture en- 

 tirely removed, that the whole of the liber may be traced from 

 the bottom to the top ; at the joint, or letter^ it divides into 

 several bands, which continue upwards to p q r, the lowermost 

 on the right-hand side joins the band Z, and another on the 

 opposite side is connected with the band o by its lateral 

 branch at the lower end. The seventh, or e, division, from 

 the bottom to the letter e, represents the alburnum entirely 

 divested of its bundle of vascular texture, and also of its 

 liber, that the spiral and ascending sap vessels may be dis- 

 tinctly seen protruding from the upper end of this division at 

 e> between the arch formed by the sixth and eighth divisions 



