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CHAP. IV. 



Experiments, foewing the ready lateral mo- 

 tion of the fap, and confequently the late- 

 ral communication of the fap veffels. The 

 free parage of it from the fmall branches 

 towards the ft em, as well as from the ft em 

 to the branches. With an account of feme 

 Experiment % relating to the circulation or 

 non circulation of the fap. 



Experiment XL, 



IN order to find whether there was any 

 lateral communication of the fap and 

 fap veffeis, as there is of the blood in a- 

 nimals, by means of the ramifications, and 

 lateral communications of their vcffels: 



Auguft 15 th, I took a young Oak bra?ich 

 % inches diameter, at its tranverfe cut, 6 feet 

 high, and full of leave?,, Seven inches from 

 the bottom , I cut a large gap to the pith, 

 an inch long, and of an equal depth the 

 whole length : And 4 inches above that, on 

 the oppofite fide, I cut fuch another gap - y I 

 fet the great end of the ftem in water : It 

 Imbibed and pcrfpired in two nights and two 



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