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II The Comparative AN ArOMX of the TRUNKS of FUnts^, 
together rvith m Account of their VEGETATION grounded 
thereupon^ by Nchemiah Grew M. D. ^nd, Fellorv of the Roy- 
al Society: FrintedhytheAfftgns of ]o\\n Marty n Printer io 
thefaid Society, for Walter Kittilby, /> 8^ 
AS there hath been a very happy Concurrence of thefe two 
eminently Learned perfons, Signer Malpighi , and our pre- 
fenc Author Dr. Gr^jr, both Fellows of the R, Society ^ in making 
and exhibiting their ingenious and accurate 
Le^e^^&StS! Beginnings^ concerning th, Ar^atome of 
nor Maipight*% Book de % Iknts^ and thereby giving a New Country 
ntitomt piafjtarum, printed of Philofophy J fo they have both be«n ve- 
hyjohn Martyn, 1675- in induftriOUS iO pUrfuing this fubjcft , in 
many things confirming one anothers Ob* 
fcrvations , and in fome few ones fupplying one anothers de- 
feftsj the particulars of which we fliall rather leave to the faga- 
cious and impartial Reader to find himfelf in perufing and compa- 
ring both their Books, than make a ftay here to fpecifie them. 
fnftead thereof, we fliall prefenthimTiVy?, with fome generals of 
this Philofophicil Mapp, and then^ with the particulars reprc- 
fen ted therein. 
In general, it is noted by our Author, that it will here appear, 
^A^^ there are thofe things which are little lefs wonderful within a 
Plant than within an Animal ; rA<i/aPlant, like an Animal^ hath 
Organical parts, fome whereof may be called its Bowels ; that 
every Plant hath Bowels of divers kinds , containing divers Li- 
quors 3 that even a Plant lives partly upon Air , for the reception 
whereof it hath peculiar Organs* Again, that all the faid Or- 
gans, Bowels,oc other parts are as artificially made, and as pundu- 
ally for place and number compofed together as all the Mathe- 
matical Line^of a Flower or Face ; that the Staple of the Stuff is 
foexquifitely fine, that no Silkworm is able to draw fo fmall a 
thred^ /i^^ by all thefe means the Afcent of the Sap, the Diflri- 
bufionof the Air, theConfcftionof feveral fjrts of Liqubrs, as 
hymfhas, Milks, Ojls, Ealfoms , with other afts of Vegetation ^ 
are all contrived and brought about in a Mechanical way . 
In/^rZ/V^s^j^r^wefindinthe/r/^of thc^wPartsof this Book; 
I. A 
