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which it had its two and twenty joints very diftindt. I 
fent it in a letter to a perfon who might have fent me in 
exchange fome fix feet long; which, however, would 
not have had above twenty-two joints any more than 
mine, if the firft joints of both had come out of the 
earth at the fame time. 
The firft joint, which comes out either at the third, 
fourth, or fifth month, always keeps in its firft place 
near the earth, fee a , fig. 9.; out of this firft comes the 
fecond, fee fig. 10.; and out of the fecond a third, 
after the leaf cc has dried, and is fallen off like the leaves 
aa , bb. Each week produces its joint, or very nearly: a 
leaf likewife dries and falls off pretty nearly every week. 
A cane of thirty-two joints, fuppofe fit to cut, has from 
five to eight and twenty of them which have loft their 
leaves; the next five or fix ftill have them, but withered 
and 
n’en avoit pas moins fes 22 noeuds tres diftin&s; je Penvoiai dans une lettre a 
une perfonne qui auroitpu m’en envoyer en echange quelques autres de 6 pieds 
de long et qui dans cette longueur n’auroient eu que 22 noeuds comme la mien 
ne fi elles avoient noue hors de terre en meme terns. 
Le premier noeud qui paroit foit a 3 foit a quatre ou a cinq mois, refte tou- 
jours a fa meme place pres de la terre, v. a 9 fig. g. de celuy la fort le fecond, 
v. b , fig. 10. du fecond le troifieme, apres que la feuille c , r, fera defifechee et 
tombee comme Ies feuilles aa> bb 9 meme figure, chaque femaine fournit envi- 
ron fon noeud $ il fe defleche et tombe done a peu pres une feuille par femaine; 
dans une canne de 32 noeuds, je fuppofe, bons a couper, on en voit 25 a 28 
depouilles naturellement de leurs feuilles, et cinq a fix autres garnis encore de 
1 leurs 
