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ed, and have the fame bore with the trunks, and are teriDinated 
with round and blunt joynts, but very finalLl find the bores or 
hollows of fuch as are found to be commonly fill'd with a milky 
crudeledfubftance , which probably in their time of growth 
was fluid like that in Coral. As it cannot be doubted but many 
of thefe Plants grow on thofe admirable radix's of which we 
have given an account, and whereof I have at prefent feme 
pieces which have a cinquefoil-bore on the cop.others with the 
imprcffions of oval joyncs there, and many other differences ^ 
fo I am now fully fatisfied that many of them grow from plain 
roots, that is, from plain Spar^ or Limefione^ without any fuch 
figure, as the entire Plant does, and many other trunks which I 
have noted. 
Another obfervable is^that thefe plants do not aUvaies grov/ 
up with one crunk or body, but fometimes five or fix fprouts^ 
nearof an equal bignefs,(boot up together from the fame root; 
as it ufually happens with Coral. As in my laft I acquainted 
you, that] had fomefingle joy nts and pieces of many joyots, 
which had fix inlets in their hollows ; fo I have fince met with 
fome which have only four^^ others with feven, and doubrlefs 
thereare of other varieties^ this kind. iSit.LiJier is pretty full 
in his account concerning their outward differences j to which I 
may add, that fome crunks have a circular edge on every other 
joynt; the intermittent joynt being fmooth without edge or 
knot : Some Trunks have circular edges on the middle of every 
joynt, but fo that the firft and fifth edges are the higheft ; the 
fecond and fourth the loweft; the third is higher than the latter, 
and lower than theformer 5 the joynts themfelves being great 
and fiiiall accordingly, and this order holds all along the Plant. 
Some Trunkshave edges according to the fameorder , only the 
edges on the fecond and fourth joynts are round and blunt, the 
other three being fliarp 5 fome have edges after the fame order, 
which are all round and blunt. There are fome Trunks wrought 
after the fame manner, only the firft and fifth joynts have a cir- 
cle of knots round thcm^the other three have edges rSomeTrunks 
have no circles, nor knots, but are only a little fcabrous like 
the plates which compofe fome Roots, of which Plates I have 
alfo now fome of different figures from what has been obferv'd 
hitherto* It may be a whether thefe differences in the 
bores and outward coats of fhefe plants do argue them to be 
