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inner histological connection between leaves and axes, shoots and parent-shoots, primary and secondary roots, and above all in gaining a correct insight into subsequent growth in thickness and so learning to understand the true mode of formation of a woody body and of the secondary rind. It is then the task of the following chapter to give a more detailed account of the history of phytotomy, the salient points in which have now been indicated.