A Letter of Mr. Martyn Lifter , written te the Pubhlhtr from 
York, Januar. lo. 167^, containing an Ingenious account 
c/ Vdns.by him obfervd zn ?hi\i%^analog6Us t§ Human Veins. 
S I R 
I Am very much pleafe^J^ wlien you give me to underftand. 
thac fomthing is publifli.^d of the Anatomv of Vegetables ^2ind 
- niste^rna and Accurate HUofo. '^'']} "^^^^ deTlgned by that ex- 
fher hnth already prefwted to the R. Cellcnt perfofl Slgilior Malpighl 
Society , m a very ohVi^mg manHer , And finee the receipt of your laft, 
his Manulcnpt , eontatning the Sum , , /11. ■ 
of his ohfervationsandLahours about ^ "^ve peruled the very ingcuious 
j^^struaure of Plan's; and he bath Book of Df.Gr^H? 5 and, as far as 
'Ihlt%m7he7p^^^^ ^ I^av^ obferved thefe matters.all 
iu fir ious Body, he will eniarg^e hu Pa- things therein are faithfully de- 
pers,iSufirateaIhhe particulars, there. Ijvered and with are3t f2Q2C\tv 
mcommd^'with SchQ^ms, andtbeta. nverea^ aaa wun great lagacuy» 
pubiijh th wbcie. In turning over ray NoteSj made 
fome years agoe, 1 find, among 
other things of this nature, fome few Obfervatious concern- 
ing the F^zw/ of Plants or fuch DuQus's , as fecm to contain 
and carry in them the nobleft juices of Plants. Of thefe 
there is little or no mention made in this curious TraBate ^ 
qnlefs under the notion of Pares, Andbecaufe I am of the 
QpintoUj that they will prove veffels Analogous to our Human 
Veins ^ and not meer Por^/ , theyfliallj if you pleafe, be the 
fubjed: of your entertainment in this Letter 5 and the rather 
thatj if they prove ^^73/ (as I little doubt them) they are not 
to be paffed over in fiknce, but are early to be accounted for 
in the Anatomy of Vegetables. 
To avoid ambiguity ; Thofe parts of a Plant, which Pliny 
{lib,i 6,cap.^8.^ calls by the names of and P«//?^, are no- 
thing elfe, in my opinion, but what our late late Author , Dr* 
Crefp^CdWs Fibres and Infertments^ or the Ligneus body interwo- 
ven with that which he takes to be theCerwa/jthat is,the feveral 
diftinftions of the Grain. Now, that the veffels, we arc about 
to difcourfe of, arc not any of the Pores of the Lignous body 
(to ufe the Dolors terms) is plait> in a tr^verfe Cut of Angelica 
Sylvejlris magna vulgatier J»B^ for example $ the Veins there 
ver^ 
