i yo Vegetable Statlcks. 



day, and the following night, and till the 

 next day at noon, the air all the while it 

 filing into the water x : I continued it thus 

 long in this ftate, that I might be well af- 

 fured, that the air muft pafs in thro' the 

 bark, to fupply that great and long flux of 

 air at x. 1 then cemented up 5 old eyes in 

 the flick, between z and n, where little 

 fhoots had formerly been, but were now pe« 

 rifned, yet the air ftill continued to flow 

 freely at x. 



It was obfervable in this, and many of 

 the Experiments on flicks of other trees, 

 that the air which could enter only thro* 

 the bark between z and n, did not iffue in- 

 to the water, at the bottom of the flick, 

 only at or near the bark, but thro 9 the whole 

 and inmoft fubftance of the wood, and that 

 chiefly, as I gueis by the largenefs of the 

 bafes of the hemifphercs of air thro' the 

 largeft veffels of the wood ; which obfer- 

 vation corroborates Dr. Crew's and Mai- 

 fights opinion, that they are air veffels. 



I then cemented upon the receiver the 

 cylindrical .glafs y y, and filled it full of wa- 

 ter, fo as to ftand an inch above the top n 

 of the flick. 



The 



