268 Of Petrify d Plants. Part IE 
Lignous Fibers, or the warp: and thofe which are tranfverjly 
as it were interwoven 5 to the ? arenchymom Fibers , or 
Woofe of a Plant. A more particular explication of which 
(a) See the real Workjn all Plants, hath been by me elfewhere given, (a) 
Book° r o/ Calceolarias hath one or two of thefe laft fairly figur d. 
Trmkj. And A Stone with the exact fignature of a STEM of PO 
LYPODY with the LEAVES. 'Tis foftifti, and fomewhac 
brown. Stirreth not with Acids. 
HIPPURITES. Or a Stone with the imprcfled Image or 
fignature of the Equijetum or HORSETAIL. There are 
three ftalks which very elegantly rife up from one Root. 
DENDRITES. Or a Flint naturally adorned with the 
Images of feveral epitomiz'd or minute TREES. There is 
the figure of a fair one like to this in Calceolarias s Mu- 
ANOTHER 5 being a SLATE about i d of an inch thick, 
reprefenting, as it were, a plain Field , inclofed with a 
HEDGE of TREES 3 fome bigger,others lefs 3 all fo lively, 
as if it had been the curious and elaborate Work of a 
Painter 3 or had been caft through a Glafs ( as Kepler 
fhews the way fometimes of taking Lanjhips) upon a 
Tablet in a Dark Room. 
It is very obfervable, That the fame curious Work which 
appears upon one fide of the Hate, doth alfo on the other. 
(JOAidrov. Agreeable to what Ambrofinus (b) alfo remarques, That if 
Muf. Metaii. f ort Q £ Atones be broken into feveral pieces, the like 
Work will appear in the intimate parts. Which plainly 
demonftrates, that not being fuperficial, it cannot be the 
effect of Art. 
DENDROPOTAMITES. Sol call it. Tis a piece of a 
kind of Alabafier, about feven or eight inches fquare, po- 
lilhci and fet in a Frame. It hath much and pleafing varie- 
ty both in colour and figure : (hewing a mixture of brown, 
tawny, white, and green 5 and not unaptly refembling a 
couple of Rivers. One crooked or very much winding too 
and fro 3 (as the Thames at Kingftone) and garbed all along 
with Trees upon the Bank. The other ftrait, with a Foot- 
walk^ upon the Bank, and inclofed alfo with a little Hedge- 
Row. 
A fort of ALABASTRITES, reprefenting a Tranfverfe 
Seblion of the TRUNK of a TREE. That part anfwenng 
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