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in the plantations, tliis is not done, because the seeds are 



destroyed by insects and it does not grow well from cuttings. 



Eremosparton has slender, pliant branches ((ig. 2','>). The 



bark is yellow in older si)ecimens, green in younger ones. 



Fig. 23. Eremosparton aphyllum with fruits. The middle thiclier brancli is 

 the year-slioot of tlie previous year, lirolien at the point. X, X: last year's 

 assimilation-branches, now dead. Beyond these new branches have arisen. June. 



