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Show The Anatomy | ‘ Book IV. 3. § AND Firff, itis obfervable of the young Brds of Anmi, that left they fhould be bruifed, or f{tarved, upon their firft Erupti- on from under the Ground3 they are couched, as Firz is rowl'd, in- ward; each Bud, againft the Ba/e of the Stalk of the foregoing Leaves, and moft exactly laid up within the Membranes thence produced : Juft asthe Child in the Womb,lies with his Head againtt his Knees; or as it is afterwards embraced with the Arwes of the Nurfe. And it is a general Rule of Nature, where the Stalks of the Leaves are fo long, that they cannot lap one over another, and where no other fpecial Protefion is provided 5 for the bottomsof the Stalks to be produced into broad Membranes, as Blankets to the fucceeding Buds 5 as in Crowfoot, Dovesfoot, Claver, Cransbill, Strayberry, Yarrow, and others. And fometimes inftead of two Skins lapped one over another, there is one entire Shiv, produced from the Stalk , in which as within a Secumdine,the Budis fafely throwded; and which, inits Growth, it gradually breaks open. 4. §. THE fameisalfo obfervable in Dock, Sorrel, Biftort, and all other Plants of this Kindred; with this difference, That every Veil or Secundineis not here produced fromthe Stalk of the Leafs but wih eee |ea hathits Original DiStinéf from it. And whereas in the former oe Bud hath onlyone to it felf: in thefe Plants, everylefler Leaf, ape ther withits own proper Veil, is always inclofed, with the next greater Leaf, in another Vei/common to them both ; and both thefe with the next, in another 5 and fo on tothe greateft. Thefe Veils are extream thin, and have very few Vefels ; being fo many meer tran{parent Skins. For which reafon, there is always found a Mucilage or clear Gelly, between every Leaf, and its Veil, and between Veil and Veil The one, thus preferving the other, (as do the Hymors and Men. branes of the Eye ) fromdrying and fhrinking up, and thereby f becoming ufélefs for the Protedfion of the Plant. we 5. §. THE Orchis, and other Plants of this kindred, becaufe the Spring and Flower early, when the mornings are cold, have a double Sheath, or Blavket over all. The Buds of fome Herbs Cas of Plantain ) having no Hairs growing on them,are covered with Fairy Thrums. And the Nettle hath Bastard-Leaves, or Interfoyls between Leaf and L 4 for the prefervation ofits Stings. th 6. § ANOTHER Sort of Protediou is in Wi White Archangel, and other Plants of a like Shep In desis greater Leaves do ftill cover and inclofe the lefler not by being ] : 4 ond Fore ue over them, as where thepace Leaves are more numerous, is ufual ; gbutsappe by a Double Fore-Curl at the bottom of every two greater Leaves 3b why h the little Onder- Bud is embraced, and fo kept fafe and tract 1 ae ‘bal §, THE Leaves of Onions are all Pipes one within another. BookIV. of Leaves. 147 very Body of the Stalks as entirely, as a Kernel is within an Apple, or a Fetus inthe Womb. From whence it comes to pafg that the Bafis of everyStalk is extreamly {welled, as going Great with a Bud. g. § UPON THE removal of thofé Parts, which are con- trived for the Protection 5 the Foulds and Compofture of the Leaves do next appear: all which are moft aptly fuited bothto the Nawber and Shape of the Leaves, and alfo their Pofition upon the Branch. In the Firft Wook (2) 1 have given Examples of thefe Eight Sorts, {c. the (4) Ch. 4s Plain Lap, the Plicature, the Duplicature, the Multiplicature, the single Roll, the Double Back-Roll, the Double Fore-Role, and the Treble- Tab. 42, Roll, Towhich I thall add Four or Five more. to. §. And Firff, in fome Plants, as Ground-Ivy, St. Fohns Wort, and divers others, where the Leaves are finall, pretty numerous, and grow bypairs, they have no Fould, but ftand Flat and Tangent, like a pair of Battledores clapt together. ut. g. They have the like Poffure in Baum 5 faving, that here the Edges ofthe Leaves are a little curled backward. Not Roled, a Curl being but the beginning of a Rol, So the feveral Labels of a Grounfel-Leaf are all laid in a Back-Curl. 12. §. The Leaves of fome Plants, as Horehound, White Laminm, Nettle, and others, are likewife only Tangent, but are fet with a Fore- Curle. And the feveral Labels or Scallops of the Leaf of Common Crowfoot, are all Curled Inward. But thofe of Hepatica aurea, are compofed into Double Fore-Rolls. 13. §. THE Leaves of Sage, Scabious, Red Lamium, Lychinis Sylveftris, and others, are neither couched one overanother, asin the EBow-Lap3 norplated, as in the Flat Lap; but being loofely foulded, of every pair ofLeaves, the half of oneis reciprocally received between Thus the two halfs of another, and may therefore becalled the C/eep. A Pofftion very well fuited to the Smalnefs of their Number, and the Equality of their Size, not fo well agreeing with the Bow-Lap; and the fomewhat inward Pofture of the Fibres, not allowing the Flat Lap. Sometimes, as in Syringa, where the Leaves are broader, the Cleep is joyned with a Fore-Curle. 14. §. THE laftI fhall mention, is the Plaite-Rol/, asin the La- pathum Alpinun, which fomecall Englifh Rhubarb. The Leaves whereof are fo very large, and the Fibres fo prominent 5 that befides and under the two Back-Rolls, they are alfo Jaid in feveral Pleits, and un- der thofe Plats, again with leffer ones,all moft exquifitely Tucked up between the faid Fibres : So, as neither to bruife the fame, nor yet to leave any Vacuity: whereby every Leaf, and-the whole Bud,lie clofe and round within their Veils, Thefe Pipes are every whereentire, faving about the middle, where they have a fmall Aperture; common to all of them, even the moft minute in the Centre: not being a forced Crack ginally formed, for the iffuing of everylefler Pipe, but a Door oriout ofa greater. oe aEEE Tee fhall give, is that which is remarkable in oes es » The Buds whereof, being exceeding tender, Nature appears oe ppeciiag manner, for their prefervation. For behind@ thesiaof ‘ants, t eae ye enough n fecured only by ftanding oe i here they are lodged withinthe - very n vif ty i | |
