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Show a Booklla C H A P. 0f t/ae Sap/VeflE/r of Thin: 1‘: "q ,3. 79:51, the circumference to the Center, {0 that thefe tranf‘verfe VeiTels have a fem? blance with the Veins and Arteries of Animals, which take their prourcfs from the Skin, through the Trunk and Limbs to the inward Receilebs of XXXVII. the Vifcem. , ‘ The curious frame of Plants are made up of different Cylinders, fine- WWW" The Sap'I/eflelr of 731mm. ly fer together, and Engi‘aven with numerous Cells (adorned with i‘e- 3:312:11? m various THe various Tubes entring into the Compage of Plants, are fomewhat Em?" akin in likenefs to the Vifcera of other Animals ( which are more« . l'l . . . . . h t 1' afifigfioflm dilhnét in them) asthey are curious SyPtemes, integrated of in timetable ob 1'17qu of long round Veflels, as f0 many Cylindrical Channels, chiefly confiituting Animals. the fine frame of Plants. The Antients not well verfed in the knowledge of the feveral parts belonging to Trees, have treated of them in a more general notion of Wood and Bark, which in truth may be more clearly dil'tinguifhed Plants are into Veins or Veflels, as various laéieal, Gummy and Refinous Chan?{Eflflfly nels, tranfmitting divers Liquors into the Trunks and Branches of Plants, §3f5f5°fv‘f‘ which do fomewhat refemble the feveral Veffels of Animals , conveying Chyle, Vital, Nervous, and Lymphatick Liquor; {0 that the milky humor refemblerh the Chyle, and the Sap the Blood, and their Refinous and Gummy Juyces being tranfparent, do in fome manner reprefent the Nervous and Lymphatick Juyce. And thefe difierent Liquors do not only hold Analogy with thofe of Animals, but their Vellels too in firuéture, (as they are Cylinders adornTthigureof m vah ed with a round oblong Figure) made up of numerous Fibres rarely inteis, terwoven with each other. Th, mm In Trees the greater Cylinders ate befet with many minute Pipes, which $33,333:, confining clofe to them in an orbicular Figure, do make ufe of the {ides "Purim" Pipes. of the larger Tubes; {0 that every part of a Tree is integrated of va. . . nous ranks of greater and lefs concave Fibres, refembhng the larger and {mailer Branches of Velfels in Animals. And the various Duets of feveral Liquors in Plants and Trees, do not TMDWM momm: gil'gflifim f mblethc ammo" Dramasangui u s. Thcpmgmg ofthc SapV‘MI M0, only in home fort refemble the Veflels of a humane Body in Figure, but in Divatication too; becatife the albendent and defeendent Trunks oFArteries and Veins, as well as Sap-Veilels, take their prOgrefs the whole . _ length of the Body ., and as Animals have r‘.ruitful Branches running ho rizontally from their Trunks into the Mufcular parts, and fubfiance of the Vifcem; So in like manner in Plants and Trees, the cortical Branches of Veflels are carried tranfverfly from the Bark through the body of the ' . . _ [)1 mo" part Trunk pfmm toward the Pith, and from it too many lignous VeITels are propaga tar, and fivmeiimcs ted through the Compage of the Wood to the Bark. ,. . . . . horizontal. And as the I'zfcmz of Animals are collective Bodies of different VeiThc vim", fel as Arteries, Veins, Nerves, and Lymphedue‘ts, as f0 many Channels, con- ilrihi‘dis'nacglgret veying feveral Liquors of Blood, Sumu Ncrwur (9‘ Lympba, {0 after withtlliofeof fome manner the Trunks and Branches of Firre, and Pine-tree,('9£. are Anxmas,as mmning alike the Vifccra of Animals in their variousTubes, fraught with GummS, mi?"- Refine, interfperfed with VefTels of Sap, which for the molt part run per- pendicularly from the Root, through the Trunk to the top, and fome of thoi‘e Veflels pals Horizontally, as (‘0 many Diametral Rays fromtllc Bark through the Body to the Pith, and others from it to the Bark, from the veral {hapes and files, placed between the Say-vefltls) as {0 many littl: giargyniiiiym' Cifierns, fupplying the Veflels with different Liquors, exalted by airy $232," Particles, (impregnated with fiilphureous and faline Atomes) tranfinitted "‘1" V. by proper Cylinders into the Concave Ame, big with alimentary Juyces, which after a due Fermentation, are refined by the extremities (3r numerous different Sap-Veflels, as To many Colatories (of various Figures and Magnitudes,) holding Analogy in fome manner with the minute Glands ofthe Vifcem, which are Syfiemes compofed of numerous Veirels, whole Extremities are difiinguifhed by their various Perforations,, receptive of fuch Liquors, as hold Conformity with them in the likenels of Shape and Size. |