10 Book1. 
Hif. of the which have fix, as the Ingenious Mr. Sharrock alfo obferves. The reafon 
Propof Vege. whereof is, becaule the Main Body is not divided into Two, but Six,di- 
ftin& Lobes, as I have often counted. Why Radifhes feem at firft to 
have four, which yet after appear plainly two: becaufe the Lobes of the 
Seed, have both a little Indenture, and areboth plaited, one over the 
other. To which, other Inftances might be added. 
46. The ufe of the Diffimilar Leaves is, firit, for the protection 
of the Plume 5 which being but young, and fo but foft and tender, is 
provided with thefe, as a double Guard, one on either fide of it. For 
this reafon it is, that the Pie, in Corn, is trufled up within a mem- 
branous Sheath: and that ofa Bear, cooped up betwixt a pair of Sur- 
foyls: But where the Lobes rife, there the Plume hath neither of them, 
being both needleß. 
47. $. Again, fince the Plume, being yet tender, may be in- 
jurd not only by the Aer, but alfo for want of Sap, the füpplies from 
the Root being yet but flow and fparing 5 that the faid Plime there- 
fore, by the Diffimilar Leaves, may have the advantage likewife of 
fome refrefhment from Dew or Rain. For thefe having their Bafis 
a little beneath that ofthe Plue, and expanding themfelves on all 
fides of it, they often ftand after Rain, like a Vellel of Water, con- 
tinually faking and fuppling it, left its new acceß into the Ayr, fhould 
fhrivel it. 
48. $. Moreover, that -fince the Diffimilar Leaves by their, Bafs 
intercept the Root and Plume, the greater and grofler part of the 
Sap, may be, by the way, depofited into thofe; and fo the pureft pro- 
ceed into the yet but young/and delicate Plume, as its fitteft Al- 
ment. 
49. $. Laftly, we have here a demonftration of the being of 
the Seminal Root: which, fince through the colour or fmalnefs of 
the Seed, it could not by Diffe&tion be obferv’d, except in fome 
few ; Nature hath here provided us a way of viewing it in the now 
effoliated Lobes, not of one or two Seeds, but of hundreds; the Sexsi- 
nal Root vilibly branching it felf towards the Cone or Verges of the 
faid Lobes, or now Dilfimilar Leaves. 
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