The bark of trees at the present day often exhibits different kinds of markings in its layers. This may be illustrated[5] by a specimen of Araucaria imbricata, which was destroyed by frost in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden on 24th December 1861. The tree was 24½ feet high, with a circumference of four feet at the base of the stem, and had twenty whorls of branches. The external surface of the bark is represented in Fig. 2. There are seen scars formed in part by prolongations from the lower part of the leaves, which have been cut off close to their union with the stem. The base of each leaf remaining in the bark has the form of a narrow elongated ellipse, surrounded by cortical foliar prolongations. The markings on the bark, when viewed externally, have a somewhat oblique quadrilateral form. On removing the epiphlœum or outer bark, and examining its inner surface. . . Read More