Sect. II. lo 



ABSORBENT VESSELS. 



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from the roots of trees up to the fummit of the caudex of each bud 



the foot-ftalkof the leaf, I fopppfe 



b 



the recepta 



of the ch 



anirnals, 



the fmall abforbent branches^of 



probably unite beneath the foil into thofe large veflels, which arc 



fo 



fily vifibl 



hence th 



dex of each bud confifts of 



gation of abforbent vefTels, and of arteries and veins reaching from 

 the union of the root-branches to the foot-ftalk of each leaf, and the 

 plumula of the bud in its bofom, as defcribed in Sed. I. 7. 



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SECT. 



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