i Vegetable Staticks. 
hours after I found the water fucked up in 
the tube many inches to z ; which fhews, 
that a confiderable quantity of air was im- 
bibed by the branch, out of the tube r iez: 
And in like manner did the Apricot branch 
(Exper. 29.) daily imbibe air. 
Experiment XLVIII. 
I took a cylinder of Eirch with the bark 
on, 16 inches long and \ diameter, and ce- 
mented it faft at z 5 (Fig. 32.) to the hole 
in the top of the air pump receiver p p, 
fetting the lower end of it in the ciftern of 
water x ; the upper end of it at n was well 
clofed up with melted cement. 
I then drew the air out of the receiver, 
upon which innumerable air bubbles iffued 
continually out of the flick into the wa- 
ter x. I kept the receiver exhaufted all that 
day, and the following night, and till the 
next day at noon, the air all the while if- 
fuing 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 through the 
bark, to fupply that great arid long flux of 
air at x. I then cemented up five old eyes 
in the flick, between z and n, where little 
fhoots had formerly been, but were now 
perifhed. 
