\66 The Statural Hijlory 



6 j. For the better clearing of which point, and avoidance of 

 the attending difficulties, it will be but requifite, though two prin- 

 cipal parts of our tree be wanting, to reprefent in Sculpture^ at 

 leaft afextant of the body of an Elm cut tranfverily, together 

 with the bark, and pith, as well as the woo J, as they all appear in a 

 Micro/cope: Which without further trouble, or fufpicion of falf- 

 hood, I have carefully taken out of the Anatomy of Trunks lately 

 publidi'dbythe accurate and ingenious Dr. Grew, zs'mTab. 10. 

 Fig. 2. only with fome alteration of the Letters of direttion. 

 Wherein 



AB, CD. reprefent the whole hark, of the tree. 

 AB. the skin of the bark. 

 CD one kind offap veffels. 

 EF. another kind of ftp veffels. 

 GH. the parenchyma of the barkwherein theVeficuLe 

 are fo exceeding fmall, at difficultly to be percei- 

 ved by the Microfcope. 

 IK, LM, NO, PQ. the great air veffels pojlured chief- 

 ly in rings on the inner verge of every annual 

 growth of wood. 

 rs, rs, rs. thefmallair veffels poslured in crofs bars. 

 TVW thepith. 



XY. the diametral portions , or infertions runing 

 through the fever al annual rings from thepith. 

 to the bark- 

 2Z22. the true wood, having been originally the fap 

 veffels of the bark- 

 now the fap veffels in this diagram being only to be found in the 

 Bark,and thofe paffages intercepted atfo great diftances, as above- 

 mention'd in our Elm, the great queftion (till returns as difficult 

 as before, and as far from folution. 



68. In the clearing whereof, it muft firft for certain be an- 

 fwer'd, that its a great miftake (though it have obtained fo long) 

 that a tree only lives by the afcent of its nouriftiment in or be- 

 tween the Bark and the Wood, and that trees muft needs die 

 when once they are bark'd round , here being matter ot faft to 

 confute thofe opinions. And fecondly, That it is as certain a 

 truth as the other is a miftake-, that an Elm as well as an Ajb, or 



any 



