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Show ~The’ Preface. This, and the reft whichfollow,are placed, notin the order of Zime; but more according to-their Nature or Relation one to another. All of them intended as a Commentary upon fome particulars mentioned, either in the Firft Leéture, or in the Idea, In the Plates, for the clearer conception of the Part defcribed, I have reprefentedit, generally, as entire, as iG being magnified to fome good degree, would bear. So, for inftance, not the Barque, Wood, or Pith of a Root or Tree, by it felf; but at Icaft, fome portion ofall th : together: Whereby, both their Zexture, and alfo abeia Relation one to another, and the Fabrick of he wl ry may be obferved at one View. Yet have I not ea where magnify’d the Part to the famedeere: bt fe orlefs, as was neceflaryto reprefent what is f ae And very highly, only in fome few Bake Ue offe ein Tab. 40. which mayfuffice toilluftrate the redk S “9 és the Plates, efpecially thofe which I did not dots Engravers hand, area little hard and tiff: but they areall well cnoughdone,to reprefent what they intend AN Pid) Einogs Or 4 Philofophical Hiftory OF PLANTS: Read before the ROYALSOCIETY: Fanuary 8. and Fanuary 15. 1672. By NEHEMf AH GREW M. D. Fellow ofthe Royal Society, and ofthe College of Phyjicta Fhe Second Cdition, LONDON; Printed by W. Rawlins, 1682. |