Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1439/en

In the botanical sense, this is the bark proper — the living tissue of the bast enclosed by the epidermis. In the present book, however, it is the outer bark that shall be given the floor. This will be set out more fully in what follows. The bark proper passes from sight the moment the oak grows into the form proper to its being. It extends into the outer bark as the annually renewing bast tissue dies off toward the periphery. What marks the transition to the outer bark is henceforth