KI Book I. of Plants. 19 
CHAP. IL 
Of the TRUNK 
RAVING thus declard the degrees of Vegetation 
in the Root ; the continuance hereof in the Trurk 
fhall riext be fhew’d: in order to which, the 
Parts whereof this likewife is compounded, we 
fhall fir(t obferve. 
I. $. That which without difleG@ion fhews it 
USGL felf, is the Coaréfure : 1 cannot: fay of the, Root, 
nor of the Trink 5 but what I choofe here to mention, as ftanding 
betwixt them, and fo being common to.them both: :all their Parts 
* being here bound in clofer together, asin the tops of the grown Roots 
of very many Plants, is apparent. 
2. $. Of the Parts of the Trunk, the firt occurring is its Skiz + 
The Formation whereof, is not from the Air, but in the Seed, from 
whence it is originated; being the produétion of the Cuticle, there 
invefting the two Lobes and Plume, 
3. $. The next Part is the Cortical Body; which here in the 
Trunk is no new fubftantial Formation ; but, as is that of the. Root, 
originated from the Parenchyma of the Plume in the Seed 3 and is only 
the increafe and augmentation thereof. . The Skiz, this Cortical Body Tab. f. 1, 
or Parenchyma, and (for the moft part ) fome Fibers of the Liguons & + 
mixedherewith, alltogether make the Barque. 
4. $. Next, the Ligmois Body, which, whether it be vifibly di- 
vided into many fofter Fibers or {mall Threads, asin the Bean, Fen- 
nel, and molt Herbs; or that its Parts {tand more compaét and clofe, 
fhewing one hard, firm and folid piece, as in Trees ; it is, in all, one 
and the fame Body; and that not formed originally in the Trunk, 
but in the Seed 5 being nothing elfe but the prolongation of the Se- 
\P. minal Root diftributed in the Lobes and Plume thereof. 
5. $. Laftly, The Infertions and Pith are here originated like- 
wife from the Plume, as the fame in the Root, from the Radicle: So 
that astotheir Subflantial Parts, the Lobes of the seed, the Radicle 
and Plume, the Root and Trunk are all one. 
6. $. Yet fome things are more fairly obfervable in the Trunk. 
Firft, the Latitudinal (hootings of the Lignous Body, which in Trunks 
of feveral years growth, are apparent in fo many Rigs, as is common- 
ly known. For feveral young Fibers of the Lignons Body, as in the Tab 3. f. 5, 
oot, fo here, fhooting in the Cortical one year, and the fpaces be: & 8. 
twixt them being after fill’d up with more (I think not till) the 
next, at length they become altogether a firm compact Ring; the 
Pangi of one Ring, and the Ground-work of another, being thus 
made concomitantly, 
Tab, 3. fas 
