The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
Your Majefty will bere fee, That there are thofe 
things within a Plant, little lefs admirable, than 
within an Animal, That a Plant, as well as an 
Animal, is compojed of. feveral Organical’ Parts ; 
fome whereof may dé called its Bowels. That eve- 
1y Plant bath Bowels of divers kinds, conteiming 
divers kinds of Liquors, That even a Plant lives 
partly upo Acr; for the reception whereof, it bath 
thofe Parts which are anfwerable to Lungs. So that 
a Plant is, -as it were, an Animal in Quires; as an 
Animalis 4 Plant, or rather feveral Plants bound up 
into one Volume. 
Again, that all the faid Organs, Bowels, or other 
Parts, are as artificially made; and for their Place 
and Number, as‘pun@ually fet together ; as all the 
Mathematick Lines ofa Flower or Face. That 
the Staple of the Stuff is fo exquifitely fine, that 
no. Silk-worm is able to draw any thing near fo fmall 
a. Ihıed. So that. one who walks about with the 
meaneft Stick, bolds a Piece of Natures Handicraft, 
which far furpaffes the most elaborate Woof or 
Needle-W ork in the World. 
That by.alltbefe Means, the Afcent of the Sap, 
the Diftribution of the Asr, the Confection of fe 
veral forts of Liquors, as Lympha’s, Milks, Oyls, 
Ballames;* with other parts of Vegetation, are all 
contrived and brought about in a Mechanical way. 
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