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
10. The _Root_ cut a little higher, where the _Cortical Body_
sometimes appears only once inserted.
11. The _Root_ cut higher with the Insertions in some number.
12. The Insertions still more numerous.
13. The _Pith_ (_a_) now begun, the said Insertions being
collected in the Center.
14. The _Pith_ (_a_) more amplified.
_Fig. 15._
_Sheweth a small piece of the Trunk of ~Burdock~._
_a_ The just size thereof to the naked Eye.
_aaaa_ The appearance of it through a _Microscope_.
_lll_ The Inserted _Cortical Body_.
_ccc_ The outmost shooting of the _Lignous Body_ distributed
into the Leaves.
_ee_ _bb_ _tt_ The inner Shootings or Fibres distributed to the
Branches.
The Black Specks are their Pores, which, through a _Microscope_
are fairly visible in them all.
_Fig. 16._
_aaaa_ The Slice of a Trunk of divers years growth.
_cccc_ The _Cortical Body_, or _Barque_.
_e_ The _Pith_.
The white Lines are the Insertions of the _Cortical Body_ or
_Barque_.
The Black Lines are the _lignous Body_.
The several Shootings thereof betwixt the black Circles shew
the Annuall Rings.
_Fig. 17._
_Sheweth a small piece of Oak cut athwart._
_b_ The just bigness of it, as it appeareth to the naked eye.
_bbbb_ The appearance thereof through a _Microscope_.
_aaaa_ The greater Insertions visible to the bare eye.
The white Lines are the smaller Insertions only visible by the
_Microscope_.
_cccccc_ The greater Pores visible to the bare eye.
_eeeeee_ The middle sized.
The black Spots are the smallest of all, and both these latter
visible only through the _Microscope_.
_c_ The _Pith_ of every great Pore.
_Fig. 18._
_aaaa_ A piece of the Leaf of a Table.
_bbbb_ The _lignous Body_ with its Pores running by the length
of the Trunk.
_cccc_ The Insertions of the _Cortical Body_, with the Tract of
their Pores running directly cross to those of the _lignous_,
_viz._ by the Diameter or breadth of the Trunk.
_Fig. 19._
_A Slice of a younger Trunk of a ~Burdock~._
_cccc_ The utmost Shootings of the _lignous Body_ contiguous to
the Skin; wholly distributed into the outer Leaves.
_eeee_ The middle Shootings running chiefly into the lower
_Germens_.
_et_ _et_ &c. The inner Shootings belonging to the higher
_Germens_.
_a_ The _Pith_.
_The various Disposure, Size and Figure of the ~Fibres~ in the Stalk of a
Leaf._
_Fig._
20 In _Endive_ thus.
21 _Coltsfoot_.
22 _Cycory_.
23 _Ivy_.
24 _Asarabacca_.
25 _Mint_.
26 _Dock_.
27 _Borage_.
28 _Mullen_.
29 _Cabbage_.
_FINIS._
[Illustration: _Fig: 19_ _Fig: 1_
_Fig: 16_ _Fig: 2_
_Fig: 3_ _Fig: 15_
_Fig: 5_
_Fig: 4_]
[Illustration: _Fig: 8_ _Fig: 6_ _Fig: 7_
_20_ _21_ _22_ _23_ _24_ _25_ _26_ _27_ _28_ _29_]
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