154 The Anatomy en Book IV: 
Leaves, they are Small; in Wild Clary, a Lefler Leaf, they are very 
Tab. 50. Large. In the Body of the Leaf, fometimes the sides of th 
Bladders, are made up of leffer ones 5 asin Borage. 
7. §. Infome Leaves, thefe Parenchymons Fibres are all drawn clofe 
uptogether, IntheFormer, they are as the Threds in the Oper-work 
of Bone-Lacez in Thefe, as the fame Threds, in the Cloth-work. 
8. $._ The Pithy Part, in the Stalk, andalmoft up to the Top of 
the chief Fiber, in many Leaves, is Tubular 5 even whilft they are yet 
Young and Sappy : as in Sweet Chervil, Hemlock, Endive, Cichory, 
Lampjana, Dandelion, Burdock, Daifje, Scorzonera, and others ACh” 
fometimes the faid Pithy Part is opened into feveral little Pipes, like fo 
many Aer-Vefels, above 4 a Foot long; as in the Common Dock and the 
Little Spurge, by fome called Wart-Wort, 
9. $. THE Strings of the Leaf, or thofe Fibres which are vifi- 
ble to the bare Eye, are compofed of Veffels of the Two General 
Kinds, fe, for Sap, and for 4er. They are joyntly diftributed through- 
out the Leaf: Yetnot fo, as to run meerly parallel; as in Animals, 
every Artery hath itsVein : but the Aer-Pejfelsare every where Inclofed, 
oras it were fbeathed in the Sap-Pofer. 
10. $. THEIR Pofition is various and regular, not only in the 
Body of the Leaf, asis above fhewed 3 but likewife in the stalk: of 
which alfo I have given feveral Inftances in the Firft Wook, I fhall 
here note, and more particularly deferibe, One or Two more. In the 
Stalk of a Mallow-Leaf, they ftand in Six Oblong Parcels of equal Size, 
Tab. 49. and ina Ring near the Circuit, Whereby the. Stalk is ftronger, the 
Growth hereof, before and behind, more equal, and fo the pofture 
of the Leaf’ more ereét. 
11. $. In Dandelyon, they ftand in Five parcels: of which the 
Greater ftands a little behind the Centre of the Stalks figured into a 
very fall Half Moon or Semi-Tube, whofe Diametre, through a Olaf, 
is not above ¿th ofan Inch. The other Four, are extream {mall Cy- 
Tab, 49. ‘linders. Altogether make an Angle,twice asbig as that ofa V Confonant, 
Whereby, although the stalk be {trong enough to fupport the younger 
Leaves; yet thofe which are grown longer, and fo not only by their 
Bulk, but their farther Exténlion from the Center of Gravity, are 
become more weighty; commonly lie flat on the Ground, 
12. $. InWild Clary, they ftand alfo in Five Parcels, the Greater 
ftands not behind, but before the Center 5 making an Arch, whofe Chord 
in a Glafi, is above 3 an Inch long; and belongeth to a circle, whofe 
Tab. 49. Diameter is an Inch and half... The other Four, are {tall Cylinders, alfo 
different from thofe in Dandelion; the two bigger, there ftanding 
hindmoft; but here, the two Lef, and the two Bigger, within the 
two round Ridges of the Stalk, 
13. $. From henceit is, that the Leaves of this Plant have not on- 
ly a Prone or Horizontal Pofturesbut alfo make that Forceable Preffire on 
the Ground, which can by no means be imputed to their Weight, For 
the Great Arched- Fibre ftanding before the Centre of the Stalk, and 
thetwo Longer Round ones being uppermoft, in the Ridges of the 
Stalks they put on the upper parts thereof to a more full and for- 
ward Growth, and fo to bow the Leaf back-ward. And the Fibrous 
Arch being, though broad, yet almoft flat, doth hereby the more ea- 
fily yield to that Motion. 
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