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Show Of the Cuticle, or gar/{of (Plrmtr. Chap. IV, planted into the outward Skin, under which there is another more thin Skin l‘eated, which is a rofie mucous Membrane; and the, other more thick, is adorned with great variety of Colours, finely bcalltifying'if; and in thefe Coats, inveliing the inwards of8i1k~\\‘orms, if held up againlt the light, are dilplaied many ti‘aiifpareiit Lines, running crofs the back andlides of thefe \Vormr, which do proceed from Wrinkles ( engraven 111‘ the Skin ) between which tome diaphanous Interl'tices may be difcovered, which encircle the roots of hair beletting the Skin. Sgiv. 0f llJL' Cuticle and rBar/i of 17cgcmliler. 53 eth oli" in old decaying Trees, whole dry ('ubllance, being not capable of Dilatation, is rent in pieces; fo that the outward lurlace of the Cortex, is full oi~ r'tiperities, and Fillutes, palling the length of fome Trees, and by making many hicilions into the Bark, thereby rendteth it lull of oblong {healed l'artitions. And the iniide of the Bark, framed of many Circles of {ap Veflels, every 3,2325?fo Year growi‘tl] more loiid, and is fiep by Rep turned into the more hard Coin- hi‘lfitié‘g? page of W‘oo‘h and its moreinward parts growmg into a lignous nature, its (flay Velma. more outward parts, approaching the Cuticle, or Skin, at lali being made mere dry, become Skinit felt, in fome fort refembling the Cuticle of Animals, which is the EHlorefceiicc of their Cutis, or inward Skin'7 So that the elder Skin of C H A P. a Tree (as Ingenious Doéior Grew hath well obferved) is not originally made a Skin, but \ 'as once, fome of the middle part of the Bark it fell, which is annually caft off and dried into a Skin, in fome manner according to the likenels of the skin of an Adder or Viper, which doth after the gradual Produ~ IV. ("tion of a new one underneath, in time become a Slough. The body of Plants as well as Animals, is beautified with variety of parts, Off/2c Cuticle, and 73ml of ‘Plrmtr. "Tl-"He fil'n'. part that accol‘teth the Eye in Vegetables, is Natures finer Veil, A commonly {tiled the outward Skin, or Cirtirle, fomewhat like the animir ,y._,,,‘ Skin in Humane Bodies, and borroweth its origen from a molt thin Y1t Membrane, invelting the Seed, and enwrappcrh its more outward concreted and more tender parts, and its inward Recefles and Lobes. This delicate ambient ‘ WHOLE, lhiik, contexture of the Seed, eiicloleth alfo the Radicle, (fin-outing into a Root) and is afterward dilated into a Skin, and farther and tarther tnlargeth it {elf intoa fairer Covering; as the bark of the i runk and } imb: are formed, and receiveth greater and greater Dimenfions, derixed from the Alimentary Liquor, turned lirlt into Cortical Arches (feared in the inward vet e of' the Bark) and then by degrees is confolidated into "Wood, which {Welleth the Trunk oi the Tree, requiring larger Veliments of the Cuticle and Bark. The Cuticle of Vegetables, is more thick and cornpafl, as being7 leis Porous then that of Animals, and is beautified with greater variety of Colours, and divided in old Trees, into various Fillures, running the \V hole length of the Trunk, {omevthat refembling the wrinkles of a Humane Cuticle, with this difi‘erence, thele being much fmaller do run Horizontally, as well as long ways The Cortex is compofcd of a great and various Apparatus, confil'cing pri« marily of two parts, of a thin folid Fkin, and a more thick {pungy liibftance‘7 :hc fir-Pt relembling the (Mir/c, and the fecond the l'arenchyma. The Guide of Plants, being a thin ti'aiilparent Covering, encircleth the more loole and opace parts of the Cortex, and is framed of numerous {mall Tubes, running in divers Mmaiiders, now and then meeting, and then part" (I, ing again, make a kind of rough Network, confiliing of divers {cements of «Unix: Circles, whole {paces are filled up With little Cavities, or Cells (which pals Horizontally toward the wooden part of the Tree) and are {0 many Repo{itories of thin traiifparent liquor, which is received into the extremities of as many Organs, adapted to feveral offices and ufcs of Nature. The fine fabrick of Vegetables, is embelilhed with many apartiments, as Therarcfflm. Roots, Trunks, and Limbs, Frondage, and Foliage, which are all invel'tcd iéiiiiiiiic‘ansi; with divers Coverings, and Coats, beautifying, and prefetving their VelTels, fn‘Zfil'jf‘Pm" and inward iiecefles. My defign at this time is (having handled already the Cuticle, (as the ont~ ward'Vaile of Trees ) to Treat of the inward, the more thick VePcments of the Bark, immediately immuring the Wood. The tirf‘t, the Cuticle of Plants, refembleth in fome fort, the outward; and the Bark the more thick inward Skin of Man at the firfl: light, but differeth muchin its interior Contexture, as framed of many fibrous Cylinders, being lap \i'ell‘els, which take their progrefs the Whole length of the Trunk and Bouuhs, and are beautified with many Circles of Cells, fullof Diaphanous Liqiior, and run horizontally, being mofi commonly graced with an Orbicu‘ lili‘ Figure, and refemble many round bedes, let one by another. The Bark of Trees having fome likenei"s with the Skin of Animals, is con- 73155723.! tiguous to the Wood, to which it is faltned by the interpolition of many Cortical Fibres, as the Skin is conjoyned to the Flelh by the mediation of innnmerable thin Membranes 3 and the \Vell'els, appertaining to the Bark, do often embrace each Other, and afterward are inferred into the Cuticulzz. Whereupon, Iconccive, it proceedeth, that the Bark of many Trees are laticed with divers Fillures, of different Figures and Magnitudes, fomewhat relembling the manner of (Eadrangles, of unequal (ides: And the {aid Fif- futes prefent us with feveral Pol'tures, and windings of the Veflels, in their braces; which is the caufe, that the Cuticle of forne Trees peel OPE in a kind of Rings, becaufe the Vellels are lodged after the fame pofition in the Bark, in which divers braces, and partings of the chfels, do much refemble the fine Network of the Skin, made by the feveral unions of numerous Seg= merits, configuring the Vefils, placed in the Cutis of a Humane Body. the {mall Tubes, iiiterlperfed with many Area‘, einbelilhed With Variety of Fignres and Magnitudes, lome greater, fome Leis, fomc Orbicular, others Oval. ens." of inreil I'ie iiil'i‘CX pull. (er theCur» 1-7): l'ome Angular, Triangular, madrangular, and others of more irregular Figures. Thole various Cells of the Cuticle ( feared like Rings encircling the circum- ' l‘ercnce of the Cortex) are oft-times much diminilhed, and quite {hrunk up, when the Tranlparent Liquor is exliaufied, whereupon the thin Cuticle peeleth Q» CHAR WERE, niCurticaI ghiérliél‘ [Sofilgg'l‘fi 2,2323%; WFibtesorLigamms' |
