3IO KALM S ENGLAND. 



cut down, where we passed the time for an hour to see 

 their age. All these stood in the open air not close 

 together, but far away from each other. 



A beech trunk was measured which had at the large 

 end fifty-four sap-rings. The diameter was just 2 feet. 

 The sap-rings which were found nearest the heart, 

 karnan, were narrowest and smallest, smalast och 

 smarst, from which they grew larger, gradatim ; the 

 further they lay from the heart out towards the surface, 

 the larger they were. The length of the log was 9 feet. 

 At the small end there were forty-four sap-rings, and 

 the diameter was 19 inches. The distance between the 

 heart and the surface which had turned towards the 

 east, was 7 inches, the other 12 inches was all on the 

 west side. 



Another beech trunk had at the large end seventy 

 sap-rings. The diameter could not be measured where 

 it was cut off at the roots, because the stem toward the 

 roots branched out so much on all sides ; but 2 feet 6 

 inches above the place where the large end was cut off, 

 the diameter was found to be 19J inches. The length of 

 the trunk was 17 feet. At the small end there were 59 

 sap-rings ; the diameter 14J inches. 



Another beech-trunk had at the large end 51 sap-rings. 

 The diameter was there 2 feet. The length of the log 10 feet 

 3 inches. At the small end there were 41 sap-rings ; the 

 diameter there i6£ inches. [T. I. p. 307.] Always when 

 the diameter of a tree was measured, the bark was not 

 included. 



Hedera ganska lang. Dess vaxt och alder. 



Ivy very long. Its growth and age. 



In a wood, en SkogS-park, we saw 3 or 4 bushes of 

 Hedera Arborea C.B., which were the highest and longest 

 I ever yet saw. 



