
          on a review of the subject, that
 Pinus is as good a case for you
 as Larix, and better.


 [crossed out: Your]


 The second proposition is really 
 the only [crossed out: important] one at all important 
 to [crossed out: your] the theoretical view
 which you so ably expound, viz. that 
 "adnation is in proportion to vigor," &c.
 Here your proposition, that the 
 true leaves of Pinus (the scales),
 and the leaves on growing shoots of
 Coniferae generally, are mainly or 
 largely adnate to the stems, opens 
 up a really difficult question as to 
 where the base of the leaf is, in
 certain cases, one upon which I am 
 not prepared to pronounce a judgment. 
 I [crossed out: can] [added: will] only say that I 
 doubt if the leaf can rightly 
 be regarded as beginning so low down 
 on the axis, even in Coniferae, as
 you suppose. and when the view you

        