Microcraruim  — yee 
of other Vegetables to do to their bulk. But of thefe pores Thave faid 
more elfewhere. OF 2h iyiot Avie) teds nt 
»» To proceed then, Cork feems to be ‘by the tranfverfeconftitution of 
the pores, a kind of Faxgws or Muthrome, for the porés lie: like fo many 
‘Rays tending fromthe center, orpith of thé trée, outwards; {6 that if 
you cut off a piece from a board of Cork tranfvertly; to the flat of it) 
you will, as it were, fplit the pores, and they will appear juft.as they are 
exprefsd in the Figure .B of the-X J. Scheme. But if you fhave. off a 
very thin piece from this board, parallel tothe plain of its you'willicut 
__allthe pores tran{verfly, and they will appear almoft asthéy areexprefs'd, 
intheFigure A, fave onely the folid terfitia, will not appear fo thick 
asthey are:therereprefenteds| sso3ous04 yin dtiw oved 1 esore Mlides 
_ So that Cork feems to fuck its nourifhment from the fubjacent bark of 
the Tree immediately, and to be a kind of excrefeence, ora fubftance 
diftinct from the fubftances of the entire Tree, fomething .analogus to 
the Mufhrome, or Mofs on other Trees, or to the hairs on-Animals.And 
_ having enquir'd into the Hiftory of Cork, [find it. reckoned! .as.an 
- excrefcency of the bark of a certain Tree, which is diftinct from the two 
barks that Jie within it, which are common alfo to other trees ; That ‘tis 
fome time before the Cork that covers the young and tender {prouts 
_ comes tobe difcernable; That it cracks, flaws,and cleaves into manyigreat 
chaps, the bark underneath remaining entire ; That it may be feparated 
_ and remov'd from the Tree, and. yet the two under-barks (fich as are 
alo common to that with other Trees) not: at,all injur'd, but/rather 
helped and freed from an external injury. Thus Jonffoxus in Dewdralogias 
{peaking de Subere, fays, Arbor eft procera, Lignum eft robuftum, dempto 
corticein aquis non fluitat, Corticé it orbem detraclo juvatur; crafcefcens 
@ t prefiringit oe ftrangulat, intra triennium iternm repleturs C audex ubi 
nation with my Microfcope, I have found that the pith of an Elder, or al- 
moft any other Tree, ‘the inner pulp on pith ofthe Cany hollow: ftalks of 
eral other Vegetables: ,as of Fennel, Carrets, Daucus, bu i. 
Teafels, Fearn, fome kinds of Reeds, oc. have much flich’a kind of 
Schematifne, 2s U have lately thewin that of Corks fave onely that here 
the pores are rang’d the long-ways,, or the fame ways with the length of 
The eres in Cork t show cam Talk faFeather that isab 
he pith alfo that fills that part, of the {talk, of a Feather that 
the Qui, has muchhch ey tite, Gave billy that which 
€ver Lfet this light fabftance, the pores feem’d xo be cut tran 
that I ghef this: pith which fillsthe F ther,. sp coli nfift of abundane: 
of long pores rae llina eri oer as Cork does, tie id 
