diurtiute the whole, .and rake particular view both of 

 the parrs and conjuncture, they will finde the frame 

 exquihte enough to deferve a better efleem ; for both 

 Stalks and Leaves are made up of divers pieces, fra- 

 i-mej, as it were, in joynt work ; all which pieces bean 

 exact proportion each to other ; and each receives o^ 

 ' v indented terminations, which form very beau- 

 tiful Coronets on the pieces fo received ; then at a 

 convenient diihnce, above each of thefe Coronets, 

 there arifeth a very beautiful Circle of Leaves, and 

 thefe very Leaves are made up of hollow pieces arti- 

 culately, and proportioiubly jointed, in imitation of 

 the elegancy of the joynts ot the Stalk it felf. 



And generally the Leaves that ftand not according 

 to the Quincunx, either ftand in joynts, in the fafhion 

 of die Burgonion Crofs,as on Crofs-wort ; or in a Ciiv 

 cle,asonmoli forts of Madder,Ladys-bedftraws,Wood- 

 roots;or in fome other profitable,fit and beautiful poli- 

 ture : And chough in thefe creeping and entangled 

 Plants, irregularities are not unfrequently feen, yet 

 even in thefe irregularities themfelvesj there often 

 feems to be a greater curioufnefs and molt proper or- 

 der ; as particularly, Madder is generally tetragonal, 

 and notwithstanding its circular border of Leaves, ufu- 

 ally fends forth Buds, according to the manner of 

 Mints, and other Plants of a four-fquare Stalk : This 

 I hive fometimes feen in many of its Branches to va- 

 ry and turn hexagonal, or to have a ftalk with fix ribs, 

 upon which dccleniion the order of the Germens was 

 thus moft fitly altered ; upon each rib or angle there 

 was always one leaf, and upon every other rib, a ger- 

 men under the leaf ; which I found fo placed, that no 

 one rib did bear the Bud in the two fucceeding joynts; 

 fo that if in the firft joy no the three Buds flood on the 



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