Sc. IL 10 ABSORBENT VESSELS.+

from the the foot-ftalk of the leaf, I fappofe to be analogous to the receptacle of the chyle of animals, as the fimall abforbent branches of the roots probably unite beneath the{oil into thofe large veflels, which are fo eañly vifible; hence the caudex of each bud confifts of an elon- gation of abforbent vefels, and of arteries and veins reaching from the union of the root-branches to the foot-ftalk of each leaf, and the

plumula of the bud in its bofom, as defcribed in Sedt. EL 7.

roots oftrees up to the fummit of the caudex of each bud at