BookIV. of Leaves. ` 149 
7. $. They are of Ufe, not only for the Protection of the Buds but 
likewife, forthe fapport of the Plant 5 as is obfervabie inthofe Climbers, 
which are neither {trong enough to ftand of themflves 5 nor yet, from 
their fragility, are capable of winding about another, without being 
torn all to pieces. For which end alfo, thefe Thorns grow not like 
Buds, erected but poynt all downwards, like fo many Temers or y, 
Hanging-books : as in the Bramble, chiclly on the stalks 3 and in Chivers, T% 49: 
alfo on the Leaves themfelves ; whereby they catch at any Thing that 
ftands next them; and fo, although füch fim and feeble Plants, yet 
eafily climb to a very great hight. 
8. $. OF THE feveral Figures of Hairs, and their UR, Thave B. 1.Ch. 4. 
alfo fpoken. As to one Lk, fè. the Protection they give to the Leaf, Tab. 43. 
I fhall here farther note, That the delign of Nature, is the more evi- 
dent if we confider, That all Leaves are not alike Hairy, nor at all 
times, nor in every part ; but differently, according to their Age, Sub= 
Stance, Texture, and Foulding up. Their Age; for there are many 
young Buds covered witha thick warm Hair, which afterwards dries 
up and difappears, as ufelefiz as thofe of the Vine, Golden Liverwort, 
&c, Their Subftances fo thofe Buds which are tendereft, and would 
fooner feel the cold, if naked, have the fulleft Hair; as of Thiftle, 
Mullen, Burdock, and others. Their Strndure 5 therefore thofe Leaves, 
whofe Fibres [tand more prominent or above their Surface, left the 
cold fhould nip them, are covered with greater Store of Hair; as in 
Moth- Mullen, Garden-Clary, and the like. And their Foulds it being 
obfervable, That thofe Leaves which are folded up inward, have little 
or no Hair on their inner, but only on their Back-Sides, which are 
open to the Aer; as is vilible in Coriny Warden, Golden Liverwort; 
at ody i and others, 
taken w 9. $. Add hereto, That where there is Store of Hair, Nature is 
galis, and the lef follicitous for other Covers 5 and where there is not, fhe is more. 
£ oil Sothe Leaves of Beans and Peafen, of Nettle, Plantain, Xc. not being 
bore mete Hairy, have each a Surfoyl, or elfe certain Hairy Thrums, to protect 
petsof Rat them. And thofe plants which have neither, are fuch as have a Hotter 
the Traje Juyce, and folefs fubje& to the impreflions of Cold, as Speerwort, Scur- 
aygraji, Watercrefi, Fenil, and molt of the Umbelliferous Kind. 
10. $. Hairis of ufe to preferve young Buds, not only, from the 
cold Aer, but alfo from too much Wet; which, if it were contiguous, 
efpecially in Winter, would often rot and deftroy them. But being 
made to ftand off in drops.at the ends of the Hain doth not hurt; 
but refrefh them. Thus doth Nature make the meaneft Things fome- 
times fubférve to the beft Ends, 
CHAR: 
