H. M. Neisler on the Common Cane. 15 
It may not be amiss, in this place, to observe, that the cane is 
described by authors as “ branching towards the summit”; this 
is correct as applied to plants growing in a crowded cane-brake, 
where the development of the lateral buds is prevented; but 
where it is uncrowded and free to grow, it presents itself, clothed 
from the ground upwards, with numerous erect, closely appressed 
branches, as the seedling plant is described near the beginning 
of this article. 
evidently many years. A piece of land, many acres in extent 
Was once pointed out to me in the low grounds of Flint nver, 
by a gentleman residing in the vicinity, who informed me 
