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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 403.
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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 403.

403.

p. 208

OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF PLANTS.

The direction of growth (403-407).The plants which spread very much have the angles of the spaces which divide their branches more obtuse in proportion as their point of origin is lower down; that is nearer to the thickest and oldest portion of the tree. Therefore in the youngest portions of the tree the angles of ramification are more acute. 204

Footnotes
  1. 208:204

    : Compare the sketches on the lower portion of Pl. XXVII, No. 2.

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