10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALBURNUM»
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1
A history of the vegetable kingdom
Alburnum or false wood. The outermost woody layers, or those which are in
contact with the liber, constitute the alburnum. This sibstance is not distinct from
the wood properly *i called, the layers of which are situated beneath it. It is wood,
hut ...
2
A selection from the physiological and horticultural papers
Bandages were then applied to keep the transposed bark and the alburnum in
contact with each other ; and the air was excluded by a plaster composed of bees
- wax and turpentine, and with a covering of tempered clay. The interior surface of
...
Thomas Andrew Knight, 1841
3
A selection from the physiological and horticultural papers, ...
Bandages were then applied to keep the transposed bark and the alburnum in
contact with each other ; and the air was excluded by a plaster composed of bees
- wax and turpentine, and with a covering of tempered clay. The interior surface of
...
Thomas Andrew Knight, 1841
4
The Philosophical Magazine: Comprehending the Various ...
annually added to the tree; and that the remainder, not thu"» expended, passes
into the alburnum, and there joins the ascending current of sap. The cellular
substance, both of the bark and alburnum, has been proved, in the preceding ...
Intersection of the bark between the mature and young leaves was not attended
with any injurious consequences, and the sap must, therefore, have passed to
the young leaves through the alburnum. Consistently with the preceding ...
6
The New-York Farmer, and Horticultural Repository
process as you approach the heart of the tree. Thi<- I argue from the more porous
nature of the superficia1 and the tenser of the internal parts of the wood.—
Secondly, that the sap descends by the alburnum, which in due time becomes
wood, ...
7
The Philosophical Magazine
The interior surface of the bark of the crab tree presented numerous sinuosities,
which corresponded with similar inequalities on the surface of the alburnum^
occasioned by the former existence of many lateral branches. The interior surface
of ...
»rr.;lied into it immediately above the decorticated space, but never immediately
beneath it; and when the alburnum in the decorticated spaces has become
lifeless to a considerable depth, buds are usually protruded beneath, hut never ...
Sir Richard Phillips, 1810
9
A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
Buds of trees spring from tbe alburnum. VIII. On the Origin and Formation of
Roots. In a Letter from T. A. Knight, Esq. F. R. S. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph
Banks, K. B. P. R. S*. My dear Sir, JlN my former communication I have given an
account ...
10
Botany of the southern states: In two parts. Part I. ...
If we examine a transverse section of a trunk of a tree, we observe that the wood
near the pith and that near the bark present very different appearances : the latter
being white and soft, and more or less juicy, is called the alburnum or sap-wood ...
