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are set on, applies also here. It is attention to such 
points that indicates a knowledge of the anatomy of 
vegetation, exactly as minute accuracy of another 
kind is evidence of an artist having studied the 
osteology of the human face. The manner in which 
the flowering branches are arranged is quite as 
constant as that of the ordinary branches of a stem. 
It is not allowable to represent some divisions of the 
flowering branches one way, and some another, for 
they have all their own definite form and peculiar 
distribution. 
86. As an instance of this the common Laurustinus 
may be selected. The natural arrangement of the 
flowering branches in that plant is of the following 
nature. There is in the first place a stalk. That 
stalk is terminated by a flower’, which may be num¬ 
bered 1. At the base of ISTo. 1. grows a pair of 
small scales, from within each of which shoots forth 
a curved arm, having at its end another flower 
(No. 2.), and another pair of scales. The last pro¬ 
duce each yet another arm, terminated once more by 
its flower (No. 3.), and the scales belonging to it; 
and thus the development proceeds, continually re- 
