THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



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almost invisible stalk. Woody plants, on the contrary, 



often astonish ns by the enormons dimensions of this part. 



The old authors who describe Germany tell us that 







204. AilioresceLt Ferus from the Forests of New Zealand. 



there were trees there, from the trunk of one of which boats 

 were made Avhich carried as many as thirty men. 



From the times of antiquity the luxuriant growth of 

 the plane-trees on the banks of the Bosphorus and the 



