li The Preface. 



in very dijiant countries, did nearly at 

 the fame tim$ t unhumm to each other ', 

 engage in a very diligent '• and thorough 

 inquiry into the JlruEiure of the vejfels 

 of Plaitts \ a province y which till then 

 had lain uncultivated. They have given 

 us very accurate and faithful accounts 

 of the JlruEiure of the parts, which they 

 carefully traced, from their firjl minute 

 origin, the feminal Plants, to their full 

 growth and maturity, thro their Roots, 

 Trunk, Bark, Branches, Gems, Shoots, 

 Leaves, Blojfoms and Fruit. In all 

 which they obferv\d ait exaEl and regular 

 fymmetry of parts moft curioufly wrought 

 in fuch manner, that the great work of 

 Vegetation might effeElually be carried 

 on, by the uniform co-operation of the 

 fever al parts, according to the differ e?it 

 offices ajftgiied them by Nature. 



Had they fortuned to have fallen into 

 this ftatical way of inquiry, perfons of 



their 



