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For this reafon it is^ that the Tlume 

 in Corn is truffed ud within a mem- 

 branous Sheath 5 and that of a 



Bca^i^ cooped up betwixt a pair 

 of Surfoyls 5 but where the Lobes 

 rifej there the F///;;/g hath neither 

 of them^ being both needleis. 



AgaiOg that fince the F/;/;;^/^^ be- 

 ing yet tenders may be in jur'd not 

 only by the Air^ butaho for want 

 of Saps the fapplies from the Root 

 being yet but ilow and iparing, 

 that the faid Plume therefore^ by 

 the diffimilar Leaves ^ may have 

 the advantage likewife of Ibme 

 refrefbment from Dew or Rain. 

 For thefe having their Bafis a lit- 

 tle beneath that of the Flume^ 

 and expanding themfelves on all 

 fides of it^ they often ftand after 

 Raing like a Veflel of Water^ con- 

 tinually (baking and fuppliiig 

 itj left its nevv acceis into the Ayr^ 

 (hould fhrivel it. 



Moreover^ that fince the diffi- 

 milar 



