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feooth in the diftances between the Sprouts, but juft under the 
Sprouts there are two fharp thorny prickles, broad in che lec: 
ting on, as in the Bramble, one juft under the Sprout, the other 
on the oppofite fide of the branch. ot lisveedonswd 
“« The diftances betwixt the Sprouts are ufually fortiething _ see 
= Schem.its 
more thenan Inch, and many upon a Branchj according to its *is. +. 
length, and they grew fo, that if the lower Sprout be on theleft 
fide of the Branch, the next above is on the right, and foto the 
end, not {prouting by pairs: acaondwd 10m nega 
- Attheend of each Sprout are generally four fprigs, two at 
the Extremity, and one on each fide, juft under it. At the firft 
fprouting of thefe from the Branch tothe Sprig where the leaves 
grow, they are full of lictle fhort white hairs, which wear off as 
the leaves grow, and then they are fmooth as the Branch, : 
Upon each of thefe fprigs, are, for the moft part, eleven pair 
‘of leaves, neatly fer into the uppermoft partoof the little {prig, 
exadHly one againft another, ‘as it were in little articulations, fuch 
as Anatomitts call Enarthrofis, where the round:head of a’Bone 
ds received into anothier fitted for its motion ; ahd ftanding very 
fitly to thut themflves'and touch, the pairs juft above them 
clofing fomewhat upon them, as in the fhut-fprig ; fo is the 
Tittle round Pedunculus of this ‘leaf fitted into’a little cavicy:of 
the fprig; vifible to the eye ina {prig new pluck’d, or in a fprig 
withered on the Branch, from which the leaves eafily fall ’by 
$ 
The leaf beitio almoft an oblong {quare, and fet into the Pea 
| dunculus, at biocides lower denis receiveth from chat not 
“onely-a'Spine, 451 may eallit, which, paffing through the ‘leaf, 
- divides i £6 lengeh-ways: chat che oiter-fide is broader then the 
“inner ‘next the {prig, but ittle fibres palling obliquely towards 
the oppofire broader fidd, eem rorhake it here’ a litle mfealar, 
and: fitted to-move: the whole leaf, which, together with the 
Whole frig, are fe full wih lire hort whicilh airs 
