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1 These remarks, borrowed from Theophrastus, are generally consistent with our experience.
2 Fée remarks that Pliny here copies from Theophrastus, a writer of Greece, without making allowance for the difference of localities. Theophrastus, however, gives the laurel an earlier period for budding than Pliny does.
3 The Rhamnus paliurus of Linnæus.
4 This is entirely fanciful: though it is the case that in some trees, the ligneous ones, namely, there are two germinations in the year, one at the beginning of spring, which acts more particularly on the branches, and the other at the end of summer, which acts more upon the parts nearer the roots.
5 See B. xviii. c. 57.
6 There is no such thing as a third budding.
7 As already stated, there are never more than two germinations.
8 This rupture of the epidermis, caused by the formation beneath of new ligneous and conical layers, takes place not solely, as Pliny and Theophrastus state, at the time of germination, but slowly and continuously.
9 On the contrary, they are irregular both in their commencement and their duration.
10 This is not the case; each bud is independent of the one that has preceded it. A sucker, however, newly developed may give birth to buds not at the extremity, but throughout the whole length of it.
11 See B. xviii c. 67. What Pliny says here is in general true, though its germination does not take place with such rapidity as he states.
12 A mere fable, of course.
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