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Show Tbe Anatomy TT ofPhired Book I. Aan ish fix, as the Ingenious Mr. Sharrock alfo obferves. The reafon ‘ yhere h - ofis,s, becaufe Muin Body+)is not ‘divided into Two,but Six,di Decaule the the dda _ : CHAP. Ik ¥ “a1 obes,, h : 3as Thave oftencounted. WhyJ Radifbes * feem at firft to na Set, fter appear appear plainly becaufe Sema the Lobes of the plainly two:OCs have four, which yet after Of the ROOT. are th pai > one over the eed, have ha thal alittle Indenture, and a both Seed, vhic other her Inftances might be added. Sees other. To which, Inttan gpebesncet o 6. The ule of the Diffimilar Leaves is, Ab ul tLe ar e firft, for the protection — : = ; ot AVING Examin’d and purfu’d the Degrees of “egetation in the Seed, we find its two Lobes have ere their utmoft period: and, that having conveyed F chee Plun tender, rte is me > which which being being but but young, jy g, andfo but :foft and IT ont 4 1 al thefe, asa double Guard, oneon either fide of it. For provided with thele, asa aoubi lard, 4 a memrealor it 9 that at the to Plume, ers in Corn, istrufled upne within nee hisis ones ; Sheath: and that ofa Beax, cooped up betwixt a pair of Su hath neith Plwwe hath pissed if t there Pr the Plume neither of them : But where the Lobesrife, foyls being both needlefs. : ; iP hyeereiib'E 7. Again, the Plume, tender, - may: Pe. in-; so a fince e 2a being yet rials jur'd not o yy the Aer, but alfo for want of Sp, the fay eae cee Root being yet but flow and {paring ; that the faid Plume there Ee S0ep mses) , OE} nitawe likewife dibeuileat j Leaves, may have the advantage of ewer) RaiekeFor the ir ie Bafis ym Dew or Rain. a g Phere hat of the Plume, and expanding themfelves on all fome refrefhme a little bene 7 Dea} aoe Welle W rere fides of it, they often f{tandafter Rain, l 1 Veilel off Water, ee tinualty foaking and fuppling it, left its new accefs into the Ayr, fhould thrivel i Sb bees st) ae) 3 Moreover, that fince the Diffimilar Leaves by their Bajis _ D, a a e, Ar intercept the Root and Plume, the greater and grofier Sup, may be, ceed into 7 f = by the way, depofited into thofe; andfo the pureft pro- the but young and delicate Plume, as its fitteft A/5 ment. = + ; 49 the Seminal Root: 1, — part of the ‘fo f = Ay - we have here a demonftration of the being of which, fince through the colour or {malnefs of it could not by Diffe@ion be obferv’d, except in fome : 1 7 ines itiin the harnow few ; Nature hath here provided usa way of viewing it cae tre deedc: tha OC, effoliated Lobes, not ofr one or two Seeds,* but of¢ hundreds; the Sey. nal Root vifibly branching it felf towards the Cone or Verges of t id Lobes, or now Diffimilar Leaves. their Sevinalities into the Radicle and Plume 3 thefe therefore, asthe Root and Trunk of the Plant, ttill A / furvive. Of thefe, in their order, we next proUPGUOAYO ceedto fpeak 5 and firft, of the Root : whereo f, as well as of the Seed, we muft by Diffection inform our felves. 2. §, In Diflection of a Root then, we hall find it with the Radicle, asthe Parts of an Old Manwith thofe ofa Fetus, fubftantially, one. The firft Part occurring is its Shiv, the Origina l whereof is from the Seed: For that extreme thin Cuticle whichis {pread over the Lobes of the Seed, and from thence over the Radicle , upon the fhooting of the Radicle into a Root, is co-extended, and become s its Skin. 3. §. The next Part isthe Cortical Body. Which,whenitis thin, is commonly called the Barque. The Original hereof, likewif e is from the seed; or the Parenchyma, which is there commo n both to the Lobes and Radicle, being by Vegetation augmented andprolonged T. intothe Root, the fame becomes the Parenchyma of the Barque. 4. §. The Contexture ofthis Parenchyma may be well illuftra ted by that of a Sponge, being a Body Porous, Dilative and Pliable. Its Pores, as they are innumerable, fo, extream {mall. Thefe Pores are not onlyfufceptive of fo much Moifture as to fill, but alfo to enlarge themfelves, and fo to dilate the Cortical Body wherei n they are : which bythe fhriv’ling in thereof, uponits being expos’d to the Air, feen. In which dilatation, manyof its Parts becoming more is alfo diftant, and none of them fuffering a folution of their continu lax and a Bodyalfo fufficiently pliable ; that is to fay, a moist exquilitity5 *tis ely fine- wrought Sponge. ‘ 5. §. The Extention of thefe Pores is much alike by the length andbreadth of the Root ; which from the fhrinki ng up of the Cortical Body, in a piece of a cut Root, by the fame dimenfi ons, is argu’d. 6. g. The proportions of this Cortical Body are various : Ifthin, ‘tis, as is faid, calleda Barque; and thought to ferve to no other end, than what is vulgarlyafcrib’d to a Bargque 5 which is a narrowconceit, Ifa Bulky Body, in comparifon with That within it, as in the young Roots of Cichory, Afparagus, &e. ’tis here, becaufe the faireft, therefore taken for the prime Part ; which, though, as to Medicinal ufe, it is; yet, asto the private ufe of the Plaxt. not fo. The Colonr hereof, thoughit be originally white, yet in the continu ed growth of the Root, divers Tinures, as yellow in Dock, red in Biftort, are thereinto introduced, h * fe 4, |