The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun: With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereonGrew, Nehemiah
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The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun: With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereon
Grew, Nehemiah
Botany -- Pre-Linnean works; Plant anatomy
We say then, that the _Sap_ being in the _Root_ by Filtrations,
Fermentations (and in what _Roots_ needful, perhaps by Circulation also)
duly prepar’d; the prime part thereof passing through the intermediate
Coarcture, in due moderation and purity is entertain’d at last into the
_Trunk_. And the _Sap_ of the _Trunk_ being purer and more volatile, and
so it self apt to ascend; the motion of the _Trunk_ likewise will be
more noble, receiving a disposition and tendency to ascend therewith.
And what by the _Sap_ the _Trunk_ is in part dispos’d to, by the
respective position and quantity of its Parts it is effectually enabled.
For whereas in the _Root_ the _Lignous Body_ being in proportion with
the _Cortical_, but little, and all lying close within its Center; it
must therefore needs be under its controul: on the contrary, being here
comparatively of greater quantity, and also more dilated, and having
divers of its Branches standing more abroad towards the Circumference, as
both in the Leaves and Body of the young _Trunk_ and _Plume_, is seen;
it will in its own tendency to ascend, reduce the _Cortical Body_ to a
compliance with it.
And the _Trunk_ thus standing from under the restraint of the Mould in
the open Air, the disposition of its Parts originally different from
that of the Parts in the Root will not only be continued, but improved:
For by the force and pressure of the _Sap_ in its collateral Motion,
the _Lignous Body_ will now more freely and farther be dilated. And
this being dilated, the _Cortical Body_ also, must needs be inserted;
and is therefore in proportion alwayes more or less smaller here in the
_Trunk_, than in the _Root_. And as the _Cortical Body_ lessens, so the
_Pith_ will be enlarged, and by the same proportion is here greater. And
the _Pith_ being enlarged it self, its Pores (the _Lignous Body_, upon
its dilatation, as it were tentering and stretching out all their sides)
must needs likewise be enlarged with it, and accordingly are ever greater
in the _Pith_ of the _Trunk_, than of the _Root_. And the dilatation of
the _Lignous Body_ still continued, it follows, that whereas the _Pith_
descendent in the _Root_, is not only in proportion less and less, but
also in the smaller extremities thereof, and sometimes higher altogether
absent: Contrariwise, in the _Trunk_ it is not only continued to its
top, but also there in proportion equally ample with what it is in any
other inferiour part.
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