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in figure 7th. u is the ligament by which the bud is 
fattened to the plant. 00 is the laft production of the 
plant, and is called the arrow; it appears at firft as an 
arrow ( 00 ), and is then crowned with a pannicle it 
fhoots in September or October, and falls in November 
or December. It is faid, that this pannicle contains the 
feed of the plant. 
I have fown it, but nothing has come up. When the 
arrow has dried, and is fallen off, the joints below it 
dry one after the other, when there is little or no rain;, 
but if there happens to be much rain, the eighth and 
ninth, or tenth and eleventh joints from the top (fee: 
from / to r,i) unfold, and form a fecond head, which 
keeps up the vegetation in the lower part of the plant 
fome time longer. If thefe joints were to be fupported: 
as- 
qu’il eft dans la figure 7. u eft l’ombilic par lequel l’embryon eft attache au plan. 
00 eft la derniere production de la canne: on 1’appelle la fleche: elle paroit 
d’abord comme une fleche telle qu’elle eft en 00 et fe couronne enfuite d’une 
panache />, elle fort en Septembre ou OCtobre, et tombe en Novembre ou; 
Decembre. On pretend que_ce panache contient la graine de la plante. 
J’ai feme cette pretendue graine, riema leve. Apres que la fleche eft fechee 
et tombee, les noeuds qui la precedent fe deftechent fucceftivemenr, s’il ne pleut 
que tres peu, ou bien les huitieme et neuvieme, ou dixieme et onzieme avant 
dernier noeud lm fe developpent et forment une feconde tete qui entretient en- 
core la vegetation dans le refte de la plante. Ces nosuds appuyes a mefure auhls^ 
fa 
