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VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
The manner wherein the Bud for a Branch is produced in the bofom 
of the Leaf, is this. At the fame time that three fmall procefles of the 
Flefli have proje6ted themfelves forward, to form the Tubes for lodging 
the Conic Clufters in the body of the Leaf, a larger fimple portion begins 
to rife juft within them. This grows flower, but it continues to grow; 
and when the Leaf has obtained its full dimenfions, this begins to rife ; 
juft as the original Bud at the crown of the Root did, when the Radical 
Leaves were fully grown. 
The original procefs in this is a Angle hollow portion of the Fleft], 
which raifes the Rinds and Blea, and all the other parts with it : Conic 
Clufters are formed in it, by Ane Veffels riAng from thofe in the body of 
the Stalk, and piercing the Flcfli : a Pith is formed within, by the Juices 
from the Flefli. And here is a compleat Vegetable Body, which needs 
only nourilhment to expand, and give it growth. The Plant being now 
in full vigour, this is fupplied abundantly, and the Bud rifes to a new Stalk: 
which, fince it grows from the main Stem, is called a Branch : but if the 
Bud had been taken off, and planted feparate, this would have been called 
an entire Plant. The parts are not only the fame, in the main Stalk and 
the Branch, but they have the fame number and proportion. 
These Branches fend out other compleat Branches, if the ncurifliment 
be luxuriant j and toward the fummits of all the primary Stalks, and all 
the diviflons and fubdivifions of the Branches equally are fent out other 
proceffes of the Flefli, which carry alfo all the other parts oft' with them, 
and are Footftalks of Flowers ; in which the feveral coats and other por- 
tions terminate. The Flefli in its extream diviflons, making the annular 
Embryo in the globule of Farina ; which after being conveyed to the Seed, 
and in that ftate committed to the ground, rifes a perfeeft Plant again. 
CHAP. XXXIV. 
Of the Course of the Juices in Plants. 
T^HAT has been faid of the formation of the Seed, and its growth, in 
^ ' the Radifli, is equally true in the general ceconomy of Plants ; for 
the Vegetable Nature is the fame in all. We have feen in what manner 
the original Juice is lodged in the embryo Plant, and by what means its 
motion forms the other parts ; what remains for an enquiry is its Courfe 
in the Plant. This leads to the folution of a famous Problem, Whether 
there 
