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the Leaves by continuation in their 

 firft forming (together with fome 

 Fibres of the Lignous Bodf) are 

 drawn out into fo many Mafitles or 

 Veins '-^ as in DocJ{s ^ Snah^voeed^ 

 Sec. For the Leaves here being 

 but few , yet each Leaf and its 

 Stalk being both exceeding long, 

 at the bottom whereof the next 

 following Leaf ftill fprings up. 5 

 tjie form and pofture of all fuch, 

 asiuperfedes all the other kinds 

 ofproteftion, and fo each Leaf a- 

 partis provided with a Veil to it 

 felf 



The lifts of the Leaves^ Lmean 

 in refpect of their fervice to the 

 Plant it fel^ are theft 5 firft^ for 

 Protedion 3 which^^befides what 

 they give to one another^ they af- 

 ford alfo to the Flovper and Fruit : 

 To the Floiver in their Foulds, 

 that being, for the moft part^ born 

 and uHier'd into the open Ayr by 

 the Leaves, To the Fruity when 



afterwards 



