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that a fhort radical Trunk defcendsfrom a Cautis, 
and is afterwards divided into feveral large Branches/ 
and thefe again into fmaller ones, in different Series, 
with minute Filaments or Fibrillas going out from them. 
Each Piece is made up of two geLal Parts, an 
Outer or Cortical, and an Inner or Fibrous, which 
like a white Nerve, or fmooth compad Fafciculus of 
woody Filaments, runs through the Center or Axis 
of the Roots, and perhaps enclofes within it a fmali 
Medulla or Pith, which however is hardly difcern- 
abie by the naked Eye. 
. The Cortical Part is corrugated by two Sorts of 
Wrinkles, one fuperficial, confiding either in circular 
Rings or littleKnots which do not go quite rTund 
the other penetrating into its Subdance, being deep 
Incifures or Fiffures reaching all the Way to the Nerve. 
What Lengths thefe Roots are of when taken out 
of the Ground, cannot be determined ; I have met 
with fome Pieces above nine Inches, many above fix, 
but the greated Number are dill fhorter. 
We find them bent, wreathed, and contorted into 
ail Manner of Figures ; and indeed few Pieces are al- 
together draight for any confiderable Length. 
What has been hitherto faid, agrees to all the true 
Ipecacuanha-roots ; but feveral other Things are dill 
to be taken Notice of, in which they differ. 
*^be Black Sort is the finalled of the four, very 
hard, and the Fiffures wide and numerous. The out* 
ward Colour of the Cortex is not equally black in all 
the Pieces of this Kind, and its inner Subdance, as 
well as the Nerve, is modly white, tho* not always 
in the fame Degrees. ^ 
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