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A Bud is, as *twcre, the new Ft^tus or birth of a Plant , or w 
Sprout contrafied in finall , inclofing a tender woody pare 
(raifed from ligneous fibres and medullar bubbles) and the 
rudiments of the Leaves. Hereour Author takes notice, that 
I^ature, in ordering the feveral kinds of L/W;;^ things, con- 
ftantly proceeds in ahnoft the fame , or at leaft in an analogous, 
method : Confidering, that in Animals^ that are called perfedt,^ 
flie raifes them from Eggs by a continual augmentation and 
nutrition to their due magnitude, joyning from timetotime 
new particles totheformer;yec fo,that in every flateof increafe, 
that form, which was firft of all in being, is ftill maintained^ 
no part emerging anew in the Animal but Teeth and Horns ^ 
whereas in hfeSfSy befides the increafe, there come forth parts, 
whofe rude lineaments lay hid before, in the Infancy of thofo 
Creatures i fuch as are Wings , Feelers, and the like: And to 
Plants flie gives a daily increafe by iovefting the trunk and 
branches with a Woody fijpercrefcent Coat, but fo, that from 
the tender Branches there fpring forth every year young 
fproutsouc of a precedent bud. And in a Caterpillar the 
rudiments of fome parts , being, yet fluid , lye a pretty while 
concealed in little bags , until by the repofe of the Infefl-, un-? 
der the form of an aurelia , they, grow and come forth more 
folid ; fo^ faith our Author, the parts of a Branch ly^at firft 
hid in the bud , till afterwards being enlarged by the moifture 
and warmth of the Spring, they extend themfelves into the form 
of a Sprout. 
Th^ Le^^/e/ are, to our Author, a confiderable part of the 
Plant, feeing that all thofe parts^ that are wrapt up in the fteiu 
ortrunGk, do, when opened in the extream and younger parts, 
break out into Leaves 5 fo that thefe feem to be nothing but 
appendances to the Trunck lengthned and opened; the lig- 
neous Pipes and Air-veflTels, derived from the midft of the 
^ Woody cylinder of the tender Ring, running 'together into a 
bundle, and forming the Stalk, and at 'length upon their dila- 
tation compleating the Leaf. The great variety of Leaves our 
Author deduces from the tranfverfe ranks of Bubbles ap- 
pendant to the woody pipes of the Seem, upon the opening of 
the Stalk. 
The Qfflcc of the Leaves /ecms to him very confiderable, 
forafmuch 
