Vegetable Staticks. 14* 



till Auguft, but the ringlet 1 3 did not in- 

 creafeatall, and in Auguft the whole fhoot 

 a a withered and dyed j but the fhoot//, 

 lives and thrives well, each of its ringlets 

 dwelling much at the bottom : Which fwei- 

 lings at their bottoms muft be attributed 

 to fome other caufe than the ftoppage of 

 the fap in its return downwards, becaufe in 

 the (hoot / /, its return downwards is in- 

 tercepted three feveral times by cutting a- 

 way the bark at 2, 4, 6. The larger and 

 more thriving the leaf bearing Bud was, and 

 the more leaves it had on it, fo much the 

 more did the adjoining bark fvvell at the 



bottom. 



Fig. 30, Reprefents the profile of oneofthe 

 divifions in Pig, 28. fplit in halvei, in which 

 may be feen the manner of the growth of 

 the laft year's ringlet of w r ood (hooting a lit. 

 tie upwards at x x\ and fhooting down- 

 wards and fwelling much more at z z \ 

 where we may obferve, that what is fhot 

 endways, is plainly parted from the wood 

 of the preceding year, by the narrow in- 

 terfaces x r, z r, whence it fliould feem* 

 that the growth, of the yearly new ringlets 



of 



