
          take leads you regard foliaceous
 extensions down the stem, or ridges &c. 
 under the leaf, as [crossed out: belongin] indicating 
 that the leaf originates at 
 the base of such extension, and 
 is adnate with the stem from thence
 upwards, I cannot well avoid the conclusion 
 that you prove too much for 
 the validity of your theory. Where 
 you say the leaf is "adnate", 
 botanists say it is "decurrent"; 
 and the latter term seems to me 
 the [crossed out: m] better expression. 


 The question [added: in the Coniferae, &c.] resolves [crossed out: it most] itself
 mainy into this: does the cushion 
 or pulvinus, as botanists 
 term it, below the insertion of the 
 leaf, and with which the leaf
 stalk is [crossed out: generally] commonly articulated, 
 belong to the leaf or 
 to the stem? Zuccarini, who very 
 clearly illustrated the different forms 
 of structure of this pulvinus in 
 the Fir tribe (in the last part and last 
        