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this fubftance ; and toward the furface where the Nedtaria are to rife again, 
enlarging, and many of them uniting into one, giving rife to the Neilaria. 
A VIEW of this is given at Fig. 66, in which we fee the green Velfels 
lofing their colour as they enter the body at a, and acquiring it again when 
they become expofed to the air, in their united form at rifing in the new 
form of the Nedlarium. A tranfverfe fedion of a piece of the Recept .cle, 
is reprefented at Fig. 67, in which the Veffels are feen uniting as they ap- 
proach the furface. 
One further obfervation this fedion offers, which is the communication 
between the Nedarium and the Filament ; but as this is more diflindly 
feen when the fedion is made nearer the place of their rife, it is repre- 
fented at Fig. 68, as it appears juft under the furface. " Here it is evident 
that feveral Veflels arife from the bafe of the Nedarium, juft where the 
Vafcular Series unites to form it, winch pierce the fubftance of the Recep- 
tacle, juft below the bafe of the Filament; and rifing in their courfe 
plainly run up into its hollow. Thus terminates this fingular, and hither- 
to unob'erved part, the Vafcular Series ; forming the Nedaria, and from 
thence plainly delivering Juices to the tubular body of the Filament. 
CHAP. XXII. 
Of the Flesh of the Plant. 
'"■p'HE name alone is new in this fubjed; the part is too diftinguifh- 
able to have efcaped the notice of the rnoft flight obfervers. Jn 
Trees, the fubftance which covers the Pith is diflindly called the Wood: 
in Plants, there is fuch a fubftance allb, covered by the Blea, and covering 
the Pith, but it has no peculiar name ; I have called it the Flefhy Sub- 
ftance, or the Flefh of the Plant, as it is of a firmer texture than the 
flight parts before defcribed, and is of all others the moft efiential to the 
Vegetable, 
Pursuing our experiments upon the pieces of the fame Plant of Hel- 
lebore which we had before ftripped of its feveral Coats, and laft of the 
Vafcular Series, we now find this Flefh, and the Pith, with the conic 
clufters of Velfels, all that remain. The courfe of the Flefh in the Plant 
is reprefented at Plate VI. Fig. 69, 69, fplit, and turned back from the 
Pith. Tracing this as the others, we lhall find fomething peculiar in its 
dif- 
