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forth at right Angles with the 

 Trunks 5 which therefore^ though 

 as to their Office/ they are true 

 Roots^ yet as to their Nature^ they 

 areaMddle thing betwixt a Root 

 and a Trunk, 



cUfpers^ though they are but of 

 one kind^ yet their nature is dou- 

 ble 5 not a mean betwixt that of 

 the Root and that of the Trunk, ^ 

 but a compound of both 5 as in 

 their Circumvolutions ^ wherein 

 they often mutually afcend and de- 

 (cendj isfeen. 



The ufe of thefe Parts may be 

 obferved as the Trunks mounts^ or 

 as it trails. In the mounting of 

 the Trunk^^ they are for fupport 

 andfupply : For iupport^ we lee 

 the Clafpers of Vines '-^ the Bran- 

 ches whereof being very longjfra- 

 gile and flender^ unlefs by their 

 cUfpers they were mutually con- 

 tained together^ they muft needs 

 by their own weighty and that of 



their 



