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budlets, which are its offspring, as#bere 15 no communication of the in ternal pith between them.

This obfervation was made by flitting the young branches of horfe- chefnut, æfculus hippocaftanum; of afh, fraxinus; of willow, falix; and of elder, fambucus nigra; and I plainly difcerned that there ex- ifted no communication of pith between the lateral budlets and their parent fhoots, or between the central larger budlet at the fummit of the branch, and its parent fhoot. This alfo afforded me one reafon to conclude that the different joints of wheat, triticum, of fouthiftle, fonchus, and of teafel, dypfacus, are different buds growing on each other, thofe at the fummit only producing feeds; becaufe there is a divifion which feparates the pith contained in each joint of their hol- low ftems, as is further explained in Seét. IX. 2. 4. and 3. 1. and which perfeétly evinces the individuality of buds.

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