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tion is not lost; it accumulates to act at once on the roots when 
water can be had. Then there is observed an absorption more 
energetic than the transpiration; the absorption diminishes as the 
want of water is supplied, and finally is governed wholly by the 
transpiration. G. L. G 
. On the causes of the abnormal shapes of plants grown in 
the epidermal cells under such conditions have thinner walls than 
usual, Rauwenhoff, in Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 6,5, v. and vi. has 
reviewed the studies of Kraus and others, and comes to the fol- 
lowing conclusions: The longer internodes have, in most instances 
a longer pith than the others, but that the growth of this cannot 
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