1^6 VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
As the FleHi of the Root forced up this lower part of the Stalk, the 
Flelh of this lower part forces up this upper half. A circulatory fyftem is 
neceifary for this j and Nature has given one : for the Flefli of the lower 
part of the Stalk makes an arch, and returns upon itfelf, at the place where 
the Leaf grows ; and a Circulation is carried on in this part as evidently as 
in the Root ; from whofe force arifes the fctond Joint of the Stalk, fup- 
porting the Flower. 
I PLANTED an Anemone Root fo late in the fummer, that it fliould 
not flower till late in winter. December the 17th I took it up in full 
bloom j and found, on cleaning the Root, that lince the planting it had, 
befide the Flower, produced iome new parts. The Root, when put 
into the ground, conlllfed of a tuberofe head, and from this grew five pro- 
eeffes, of different lengths, with unevi n 1 nds : the whole was dry, hard, 
and of a dulTey brown ; only at the crown appeared a thick part paler than 
the reft : this was the principal Bud. 
When taken up, the five Proceffes were grown much longer; and there 
were (hot out from the head the Rudiments of two others, in form of 
Buds. The whole Root w-as of a pale brown ; a|id four of the proceffes 
yet paler ; but the fifth, which lay loweft, and vvas a continuation of the 
head of the Root, was of the fame brown with that part 
From the head of the Root, and from this undermoft Frocefs, grew 
many lo. fe Fibres ; from the others none. This part, therefore, is the 
only one in an Anemone that is properly to be called a Root. It is in 
this ftate of the Plant the natural body of the Root, altho’ it has been one 
of the common Proceffes originally. The others are lengthened Buds j 
and nothing more. They arc thus formed. 
When an Anemone Root is taken out of the ground, there is on its 
Crown a Bud, which contains the Rudiment of the next year’s Stalk and 
Flower. When this Root is planted. Nature not only fends up the Stalk 
from the Bud, to produce Flowers and Seeds, but, careful of accidents, 
ihe fends out alfo other Buds, which are to propagate aqd increafe the 
Plant from the Root. Thefe appear upon the head of the old Root ; and 
they are Shoots from the Flefh. Which from themfelves form a Pith, and 
pudiing out the Coats of the Root, and making their way to the furface, 
there appear in feveral conic bodies, covered with many filmy fcales ; thefe 
fcales are formed of the three outer coats of the body of the Root, which 
having been all pufhed out by this Shoot from the Flefli, throw off imper- 
fedt Films from their ftretched parts, which ferve to defend the tender 
Plant or Embryo contained in the Shoot. 
While 
