34* Of Vegetation. 



ringlets of wood in Experiment 46. (Fig, 30.) 

 do further confirm this. 



But whether it be by an horizontal or lon- 

 gitudinal mooting, we may obferve that Na- 

 ture has taken great care to keep the parts 

 between the bark and wood always very fup- 

 pie with flimy maifrure ; from which ductile 

 matter the woody fibres, veficles and buds are 

 formed. 



Thus we fee that Nature, in order to the 

 production and growth of all the parts of 

 Animals and Vegetables, prepares her ductile 

 matter ; in doing of which (lie felects and 

 combines particles of very different degrees 

 of mutual attraction, curioufly proportioning 

 the mixture according to the many different 

 purpofes file defigns it for 3 either for bony or 

 more lax fibres of very different degrees in 

 Animals, or whether it be for the forming 

 of woody or more fofc fibres of various kinds 

 in Vegetables. 



The gx r eat variety of which different fub- 

 ftances in the fame Vegetable prove, that 

 there are appropriated veffels for conveying 

 very different forts of nutriment. And in 

 many Vegetables ibme of thofe appropriate 

 veffels are plainly to be ken replete either 

 with milky, ydlow, or red nutriment. 



Dr- 



