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In correfpondence alfo to the 

 fize and fbape of thefe Fibres^ is 

 the Leaf flat; In that either they 

 are very fmall 5 or if larger^ yet 

 they never make an entire Circle 

 or Ring 5 but either half of one^ as 

 in Borage^ or at moft three parts of 

 one 5 as in Mullen^ may be feen. 

 For if either they were fo big^ as 

 to contain 5 or fo entire ^ as per- 

 feftly to include a Fitl\ihQ Energy 

 of the Sap in that Tith ^ would 

 cauie the (aid Lignous King to (hoot 

 forth on every (ide 5 as it doth in 

 the Root or Trunkal But the laid 

 Fibres being not figur'd into an 

 entire Ring^ but foasto be open 5 

 on that hand therefore where o- 

 pen^ thev cannot fhoot anything 

 direftiy from themielves^ becaufe 

 there they have nothing to fhoot ^ 

 and the ^'^p having alfo a free vent 

 through the faid opening., againft 

 that part therefore v/hich is there- 

 unto oppofite.it can have no force 5 

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