58 VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
Root. 26 Is a fedion cut out of the middle part of the Fibre, where it 
is hung about with Fibrills in form of Hairs. And 27 is cut from the 
plain and tender part toward the extremity. The feven conflitucnt parts 
are equally prefent in all thefe portions of the Fibre, only they are lefs 
diftindt where it is tendered: and mod juicy toward the extremity, as at 
Fig. 27. 
x^DVANciNG from the Fibre to a feftion of the body of the Root, we 
fee all the fame parts, and have them more didindl, as the fubjedt is larger: 
and there we have the fird indance of that difference they diew in the 
feveral portions of the Plant, beginning with a variation in number. In a 
tranfverfe fedlion of the body of the Root, cut extremely thin, and viewed 
before the Double Microfcope, with its fmaller powers, we fee all the feven 
parts didindly, as reprefented Fig. 28. Each has its regular place, and 
regular proportion to the others ; but the conic Cluders are doubled in 
number. They were only fix in the Fibre, but here they are twelve. In 
the Flower Stalk the parts are dill the fame, but they differ in proportion ; 
the Blea is lefs in quantity, and the conic Cluders are there twenty-four. 
This is reprefented, moderately magnified, at Fig. 29, and largely and 
didindly at Fig. 30. What remains is only to trace the parts in the Foot- 
dalks of the Leaves. 
At Fig. 31. is reprefented the body of the Footdalk in a tranfverfe fec- 
tion magnified, which confids only of an inner Rind and Blea, with 
twelve of the conic Cluders 5 and at 32, is reprefented a like fedion of 
one of the divifions at the top, in which are only four of the twelve Cluf- 
ters, a resular portion being fent into each of thofe parts. 
We are about to trace the courfe of thefe feveral condituent parts thro’ 
the Plant, in the fucceeding chapters ; nor will this be difficult to an at- 
tentive eye, becaufe they continue the fame in all the portions of the Plant, 
whether they are continuations one of another, as the Rinds, &c. or ge- 
nerated in the part where they appear, as the Pith : but one thing is leen 
plainly in thefe fedions, which demands enquiry here : this is the variation 
of the conic Cluders in number. 
It would be natural to fuppofe, that the fix of the Fibre were continu- 
ed into the body of the Root, and were there divided ; and that the twelve 
of the Root became, in the fame manner, the twenty-four of the Flower- 
dalk : but if this were the cafe, there mud be many times twelve in the 
Root, for there are many Fibres ; nor could the twelve we find there fur- 
nifli the four and twenties of the feveral Flowerdalks ; for they are very 
numerous from one Root. This is the Problem j and in a difcovery fo 
new. 
