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usinthegrouthof the made fearn, the 

 fecdie difpofure of Gramenl/chemon, 

 and the trunk or neat Reticulate work 

 in the codde of the Sachell paJme, 



For even in very many round ftalk 

 plants, the leaves are fet after a Quintu 

 ple ordination, the firft leaf anfwering 

 the fifth, in lateral difpofition. Where 

 in the leaves lucccffively rounding die 

 ftalke, infoureatthe furtheft the com- 

 pafs is abfolved, and the fifth leafeor 

 Sprout, returns to the pofition of the 

 other fift before it 5 as in accounting up 

 ward is often obfervabJe in in furre pelli- 

 torye, Ragweed, thefproutesof Oaks, 

 and thorns upon pollards, and very re 

 markably in the regular difpofure of the 

 rugged excrefcencies in the yearly (hoots 

 of the Pine. 



But in iquare (talked plants, the 

 leaves ftand refpeftively unto each other* 

 either in erode or decuflation to thofe 

 above or below them, arifingat erode 

 portions; whereby they (hadow not 

 each other, and bettter refift the force 

 of winds, which in a parallel fituation, 



and upon fquare ftalkes would more 



/ t 

 forcibly 



