ECCENTRIC GROWTH. 



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indistinguishable from centric growth. A developing shoot- 

 system, that is to say, may be so approximately centric in the 

 region of the growth-centre that it may appear perfectly normal 

 to the eye, and yet a very obvious amount of inequality may 

 appear in the older members. 



Fig. 55. — Centric symmetrical construction (5 + 5). 



V. The lateral members themselves share in the distortion, in 

 that the ovoid-curves which fit into the quasi-squares are no longer 

 symmetrical in themselves unless they fall in the new plane of 

 bilaterality. That is to say, the members proceeding from the 

 sides of the system will themselves be asymmetrical ; or, in tech- 



