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BUDS. 



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budlets, which are Its offspring, as there is no communication of the In' 

 ternal pith between them. 



This obfervatioii was made by flitting the young branches of horfe- 

 chefnut, asfculus hippocaftanum ; of afti, fraxinus ; of willow, falix 

 and of elder, fambucus nigra ; and I plainly difcerned that there cx- 

 ifted no communication of pith between the lateral budlets and their 



)ots, or between the central larsrer budlet at the fummit of 



parent fhoots, or 



the branch, and its parent flioot 



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Th 



alfo afforded me one reafoii 



elude that the different joints of wheat, triticum, of fouthifll 



on 



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ibnchus, and of teafel, dypfacus, are different buds growing 

 other, thofe.at the fummit only producing feeds ; becaufe there is a 

 divifion which feparates the pith contained in each joint of their hol- 

 low ftems, as is further explained in Sedl. IX. 2. 4. and 3. i. and 

 which perfectly evinces the individuality of buds. 



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