J/e get able Stattcks. 14 ^ 
till Ai^ufi, but the ringlet 1 3 did not in- 
crcafeatall, and in Auguft the whole fhoot 
a a withered and dyed i but the (hoot / /, 
lives and thrives well, each of its ringlets 
fwelling much at the bottom : Which fwel- 
lings at their bottoms muft be attributed 
to fome other caufe than the ftoppage of 
the fap in its return downwards, becaufe in 
the Ihoot / /, 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 fwell at the 
bottom. 
Fig. 30. Reprefents the profile of one of the 
divifions inFig. 28. fplit in halves, in which 
may be feen the manner of the growth of 
the laft year’s ringlet of wood fliooting a lit. 
tie upwards zt x x\ and (hooting down- 
wards and fwelling much more at s « > 
where we may obferve, that what is (hot 
endways, is plainly parted from the wood 
of the preceding year, by the narrow in- 
terftices x r, z r, whence it Ihould feem, 
that the growth, of the yearly new ringlets 
of 
