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Show Of the V egetation soree BookII. SS art, out of their own Refolved Prinin par nate the Soil: Being thus, ; ; eae again. inded Com ciples, annually being by 11. §. Manyof thefe Principles, “upon their Refolution, 3 continually afce nd into the Sun more attenuated and volatilized although they lof not Where, the Aer, and are mixed therewith. other purer Princ ipless themtheir Vezatable Nature, yet being amongft fubtile, more felves alfo, dey sofiting their Earthy feculencies, become : ' Foal : {imple and Effential Bodies. prefNature, Springy or Elaftick an of 12. §. And the Aer being forceth and infinuateth fing, more or lefs, upon all Bodies ; it thereby it {elf into the Soil, throughall its permeable Pores. Upon its own and Effential Princientrance, it carries alfo many ofthe faid } egetable are {pread all over reft, the with together which, 5 it les along with lefs Vehement, yet the Bodyof the Soil. By which means, thougha of warmth, more Subtil Fermentation, and with the leaft advantage et continuable, will be effected. The Principles being thus farther refolued and fubtilized, 13. §. not prevent, would prefently exhale away, if the Rai, again, did is as a Ground, the through foaking and upon Which.therefore, falling freth Menftruum, {aturate or impregnate with many of them. And as Sust {till Gnketh lower, it carries them along withit felf, from the perficial, to the Deeperparts of the Ground : thus,not only maturing 3 thofe parts alfo, which, otherwife, would be more lean and cold A Aid ae wl ws Pais > | gradually but therein likewife, laying up and fecuring a Store, more and thriftily to be beftowed upon the Upper parts again, as they need, 14. ¢. And Austuwa having laid up the Store, Winter following thereupon, doth, asit were, lock the doors upon it. In which time, fome warmer Intervals,ferve further and gradually to mature the ftored Principles, without hazard of their being Exhaled. Andthe Spring returning, fets the doors open again, with warmer and more con{tant Suv, with gentle and frequent Ram, fully refolves the faid Principles ; and fo furnifheth a plentiful Diet, forall kinds of Vegetables: being a Compofition of Water chiefly, wherein are refolved, fome portions of Earth, Salt, Acid, Oyl, spirit, and Aer 5 or other Bodies of % Affinity herewith. 15. §. THE ROOTftanding in the Ground thus prepared,and being always furrounded with a Barque, which confifteth chiefly of a Sap is imbib’d, Parenchymons and spongy Body ; (2) it will thus, as Sponges do, natuand diftribu- rallyfuck up the watry parts of the Soi impregnate {with the faid oe . ene Principles. Which Principles notwithftanding, being in proportion aae with the watryparts, but few, and alfo more Effential ; (b) therefore in this Parenchymous Part, are they never much difcovered, cither by Ge (b) $.11,12 Colour, Txfte, or Smell. Asit is probable, that fome diftilled Waters, which difcover nothing, toSenfe, of the Plawts from which they are diftilled, may yet, in part, retain their Faculties. And it is known, that many Bodies 5 as Crocs Metallorum, convey manyof their parts into the Menfiruum, without any fenfible alteration thereof. So Froft and Sow have neither Tafte nor Swell, yet from their Figures, “tis evident, that there are divers kinds of Saline Principles incorporated with them; or at leaft, fuch Principles as are common to them and divers kinds of Salts. ; 16. §. Book II. 83 of Roots. 16. g. The entrance of this Impregnate Water or Sapis not without difference, but by the Regulationof the intervening skin; being thereby f#raived and rendred more pure : the Skin, according to the thicknefs (2) or clofenefs thereof, becoming fometimes onlyas a brown paper, fometimes as a Cotton, and fometimes as a Bag of"Leather to (4a) Pat. 020 the tranfient Sap, asthe nature of it doth require. By whichit is al- ~* 3 fo moderated, \eft the Barque, being {pongy, thould fuck it up too faft, and fo the Root fhould be, as it were, furcharged bya Plethora. And divers ofthe Succiferous Veffels being mixed herewith (4) and lying next the Soil, ufually more or lefs wortified, and fo their Principles (b) Potc.2. fomewhat refolved; the Sap is hereby better fpecified, and further $14. tindtured 5 fach parts of the Sap beft entring, as are moft agreeable to thofe Primciples 3 which the Sap alfo carries off, in fomepart, as it paffeth into the Barque. 17. §. The Sap thus feraized, though it be pure, and confifteth of Effential parts; yet being compounded ofheterogeneous ones; and received intothe Parenchyma of the Bargue a laxe and {pongy Body, they will now eafily and mildly fermevt. Whereby they will be yet further prepared, and fo more eafily infinuate themfelves into all the Bladders of the faid Parenchyma 5, {welling and dilating it as far as the Continuity of its partswill bear. Whereupon, partly from the continued entrance of freth sap, and partly by a Motion or Preflure ofRe(ftitution in the {wollen and Tenfed Bladders of the Parenchyma, the Sap is forced thence into the other parts of the Root. 18. g. And becaufe the Parenchyma isin no place openly and Vifibly Pervious, but is every where compofed of an Infinite Number of {mall Bladders (c)3 the Sap, therefore,is not only fermentedtherein, and fitted for Separation; but, asit paffeth through it, isevery part (¢) Pt 3. Sots of it, ferained an Hundred times over, from Bladder to Bladder, 19. §. The Sap thus fermented, and ffrained, is diftributed to the other Organzcal Parts, according as the feveral Principles of This, are agreeable to thofe whereofthe faid Organical Parts confift. As the Sap therefore paffeth from Bladder to Bladder, fach Principles as are agrecable to thofe ofthe Fibres of the faid Bladders, willadhere to, and iffinuate themfelves into the Body of the Fibres 5 fe. Watry chiefly, (d) Idea, $: next Acid, then fpirituous, Earthy; Aery, and Oleous. (d) 20. §. And the Sap byits continual appulfe and percolation, as it 50,52. Icaveth fome parts upon the faid Fibres 5 fo as it is (queezed betwixt themfrom Bladder to Bladder, it licks and carries off {ome others from them, in fome ##ion together with it 5 andfo is Iwpreguate herewith : as Water, by palling through a Mineral Vein, becomes tinéfured with that Mineral. 21. §. The Sp thus Impregnate with fome united Principles ofthe Parenchymous Fibres, paffeth on to the Lignons Veffels, whereinto their correfpondent Principles alfo enter 5 fe. Watry, Saline, Oleows and Earthy chiefly. (e) And becaufe the Parenchymous Principles mixed with (e) Idea; $ them, are in fome degree wnited, arid fo more. ready to fix fome of51, 52. thefe therefore will likewife enter into the faid Vefels. Whereupon,the Alkali oleafumof the one,and the Acidumfpirituofum of the other,meeting together 3 Thefe, with the other Principles , all concentre , and of divers fluids, becomeonefixed Body,and are gradually agglutinated to the Vejels 5 that is, The Veffels are now nourified. R 2 22. ¢ |
