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COLONEL GREENWOOD'S solution of the beech-tree pierced by a thorn plant is undoubtedly correct. The New Forest affords many cases of the branches of that tree growing together and forming holes apparently through the trunk. Ivy gives the most striking and familiar examples of its runners crossing and uniting; it is not unusual to find a triangular arrangement of runners which cross each other at intervals of a few inches apart. It may be as well to draw your readers' attention to the spasmosic way in which the leaves of the beech burst in spring: sometimes an entire branch, at others a single twig with less than twenty leaves, will be in full leaf a week or ten days before the buds have generally burst.
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H., G. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 10, 6 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010006c0
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