The Anatomy Book I. 
Tab.2.f 4.b. 
Tebaf7ab. 
7. $- Next withinthis Part ftands the Ligmow Body: This Lig- 
nous Body, lyeth with all its parts, fo far as they are vifible, in a Cir- 
cle or Ring. Yet are there divers extreme fmall Fibres thereto pa- 
rallel, ufially mixed with the Cortical Body; and by the fomewhat dif. 
ferent colour of the faid Cortical Body where they ftand, may be no- 
ted. Thefe Fibres the Cortical Body, and Skin, altogether, properly 
make the Bargue. The Original of this Lignous Body, as of the two 
former, is from the Seed ; or, the Seminal Roots of both the Lobes, be- 
ing united in the Radicle, and withits Parenchyma co-extended, is here 
in the Root of the Plant, the Lignows Body, 
8. $. The Contexture hereof, in many of its parts, is much more 
clofé thanthat of the Cortical; and their Pores very different. For 
whereas thofe of the Cortical are infinitely numerous, thefe of the Lig- 
vows are in comparifon nothing fo. But thefe, although fewer,’ yet 
are they, many of them, more open, fair and vifible: asin a very thin 
Slice cut athwart the young Root of a Tree, and held up againft the 
light, is apparent, Yet not in all equally 3 in Coram-Tree, Goosberry- 
Tree, ce. le, in Oak, Plums, and efpecially Damafcens, more; in 
Elder, Vines, &c. molt confpicuous. And as they are different in 
number and fize, fo alfo (whercon the numeroufneß of the Pores of the 
Cortical Body principally depends) in their hape.. For whereas thofe 
of the Cortical Body are extended much alike both by the length and 
breadth of the Root ; thefe of the Lignows, are only by the length; 
which efpecially in Vives, and fome other Roots is evident. Of thefe 
Pores, ‘tis alfo obfervable, that although in all places of the Root they 
are vilible, yet moft fair and open about the filamentous Extremities of 
fome Roots, where about, the Roots have no Pith; asin Fenil. And 
in many Roots, higher. 
9. $. The proportion betwixt this Lígnoms Body and the Cortical, 
is various, aswas (aid; yet in this, conítant, fe. that in the filamentous 
and fmaller Parts ofthe Root, the Lignous Body is very much the lef; 
running like a flender Wyer or Nerve through the other furrounding 
it. Whereas in the upper part, it is often times of far greater quan- 
tity than the Cortical, although it be encompald by it. They ftand 
both together pyramidally, which is moft common to Infant Roots, but 
alfotoa great many others, 
10. The next Part obfervable inthe Root, is the Infértment. The 
exiftence hereof, fo far aswe can yet obferve, is fometimes in the Radi- 
ele of the Seed it (IF; I cannot fay always. As to its fübftantial na- 
tnre, weare more certain 5 thatit is the fame with that of the Paren- 
chyma of the Radiclez being always at leaft augmented, and fo, in part, 
originated from the Cortical Body, and fo, atfecond hand, from the faid 
Parenchyau, For in difletting a Root, I find, that the Cortical Body 
doth not only environ the Lignows, but is alfo wedg'd, and in “many 
Pieces inferted into its and that the faid inferted Pieces make not a 
meer Indenture, but tranfmit and fhoot themfelves quite through as 
far as the Pith: which in a thin Slice cut athwart the Root, as fo many 
Nass drawn from the Circumference towards the Center, fhew them- 
elves, 
11. $. The Pores of the Infertment are fometimes, at lealt, exten 
ded fomewhat more by the breadth of the Root, as about the top of 
the Root of Borage may be feen; and are thus different from thofe et 
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