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13. $. The (veral Fibers in the stalk, are all Inofeulated in the 
Leaf, with very many Sub-divifions. According as thefe Fibers are 
Inofculated near, or at, or fhoot direétly to the edge of the Leaf, 
is it Even, or Scallopd. Where thefe Inofeulations are not 
there we have no Leaves, but only a company of Filaments as in 
Fennel. $ A 
14. $. To the Formations of Leaves, the Fonldings immediately 
follow. And fometimes they have one Date, or are the contemporary 
works of Natures each Leaf obtaining its diftinét fhape, and proper 
pofture together; both being perfect, not only in the outer, but Gen- 
tral and minuteft Leaves, which are five hundred times fmaller than the 
Outer: both which in the Cautious opening of a Germen may be feen- 
15. $. Nor is there greater Art inthe Forms, than in the Foulds 
or Poftures of Leaves; both anfwerably varying, as this or that way 
they may be moft agreeable, Of the Quincincial poftare,fo amply in- 
ftanc’d in by the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, I {hall omit to (peak. 
Others there are, which though not all fo univerfal, yet equally ne- 
cellary where they are, giving two general advantages to the Leaves, 
Elegancy and secnrity, je. in taking up, fo as their Forms will bear, 
the leaft room; and in being fo conveniently couch’d, as to be capable 
of receiving protection from other Parts, or of giving it one to ano- 
ther5 as for inftance, 
16. $. Firft, There is the Bow-Lap, where the Leaves are all 
laid fomewhat convexly one over another, but not plaited ; being to 
the length, breadth and number of Leaves moft agreeable; as in the 
Buds of Pear-tree, Plum-tree, &c. But where the Leaves are not fo 
thick fèt, as to ftand in the Bow-Lap, there we have the Plicature, or 
the Flat-Lap 5 asin Roje-Tree, Strawberry, Cinquefoyl, Burnet, &c. For 
the Leaves being here plaited, and fo lying in half their breadth, and 
divers of them thus alfo collaterally fet together 5 the thicknefs 
them all, and half their breadth, are much alike dimenfions 5 by which 
they ftand more fecure within themfelves, and in better confòrt with 
other Germen-Growths in the fame Truf. IF the Leaves be much in- 
dented or jagg'd, now we have the Duplicature ; wherein there 
are divers Plats in one Leaf, or Labels of a Leaf, but in diftingé 
Sets, a leffer under a greater; asin Souchws, Tanfey, &c. When 
the Leaves ftand not collaterally , but fingle; and are moreover 
very broad; then we have the Maltiplicaturez, as in Goofeberries, Mal- 
lows, &c. the Plaits being not only divers in the fame Leaf, but of 
the fame get continuant, and fo each Leaf gather'd up in five, feven 
or more Foulds, in the fame manner as our Gentlewomens Fans, 
Where either the thicknef of the Leaf will not permit a Flat-Lap, or 
the fewnef of their number, or the fmalnefs of their Fibers, will allow 
the Rowl,there This may be obferved. Which is fometimes fingle, as in 
Bears-Ears, Arum, Flammula, Jerufalem Comfip, Bc. Sometimes dou- 
ble, the two Rowls beginning at each edge of the Leaf, and meeting 
in the middle. Which a ain, is either the Fore-Rowl, or the Back- 
Roml. If the Leaf be de ign’d to grow long, now we have the Baeck- 
Roml, asin Docks, Sorrels, and the reft of this Kindred: as alfo in 
Primrofe, and other like Plants. For the main Fibers, and there- 
with a confiderable part of the Cortical Body ftanding prominent from 
the Backfide of the Leaf, they thus ftand fecurely couch’d up be- 
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‘Treat. of the 
Quincunx 
