Sect.XVIIL uu 



LEAVES AND WOOI>. 



S^^ 



to prep them 



of timber. 



goe from artichol 



to., coralline rocks. 



Time of felling timber after harking 



The 



ij 



Pith is brain. 



\ From elder. 



Does not communicate from bud to hud 



Boundary to . the growth of trees, 



rings 

 Sa- 

 Not 



OfL 



The buds of plant 



dy been (h 



D 



divid 



5 be' 

 bud 



o 



d the leaves to conftitute th 



And laftly, that the new bud in th*e bofo 



- ->r ^ 



f is the offspring from the caude^- of that old bud 



to be individual 



of each in* 



n of each 

 which the 



& 



\ 



'I 



'-^" 



leaf conftitutes the lungs. 



The leaves of grades are of great confequence, as they nonrifli 



or our domeftic miadrupedsf the cultivation of grafTcs has 



c 



many 



therefore been much attended 



Many of thefe propa 



em 



■ • 



".h— ' • 



felves more by their roots than by their feed ; efpecially where th 

 ftems are perpetually deftroyed by the grazing 



of 



fli 



P 



or 



D 



fe 



d fome of them 



iaid 



be vivipai 



the fed: 



^"» 



'"' 



. I 



dumetorum, or fefcue grafs ; that is, that they bear bulbs on th 

 flems after flowering inftead-of feed 





hieh in time drop off 



d 



ftrike root into the ground, like the polygonum viviparum, and the 

 allium magicum.;, which circumftance' is faid to obtain in many al- 



pine grades 



D 



hofe feed 



The ftems of the graffes confifl 

 without lateral branches : each 



lly devoured by fmall bird 

 in general of joint above 



J 



js ; each joint of which feems to be a fuccef- 

 five plant growing on the preceding one, and generated in the bofom 

 of the leaf, which furrounds it ; the ftem may therefore be efteemed 



> * 



fucceffion of leaf-buds, till at length a flower-bud is produced 



th 



fummit, as fliewn in Sect. IX, 3 



I. 



In fome graffes, as 



th 



e 



agroRis 



canina, or 



m 



pen 



dogr's-ofrafs 



CD 



t) 



h- grafs 



C) 



or 







rafs, the root confifts, of joints as well as the ft 



hich 



may be confldered as feparate individual plants, like the bulbs of po 



y joint of thefe roots will grow into a new pla 





he 



great 



