Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/817/en

This indication points to the salt-water stream — Goethe called it the *Erdsaft*, the earth-sap — which in the shoot-axis moves upward through the xylem, inside the peripheral cambium, directed into the foliage. It is this stream, bearing formative forces, that helps the plant to the physical shaping of its substances — protein, the structural carbohydrates, and so forth — and thereby to the sense-perceptible gestalt of its type as a whole.