158 VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
ed this Autumn, 1758, will be a long Procefs in 1759, fit to be feparated 
from the Root 3 in the year 1760, this will fend up Leaves, and in 1761 
it will flower j and new Buds will then be formed from it. 
Here let us refi, and wonder! the proceeding of Nature, thus ex- 
plained, is fimple and familiar; but how delicate it is ; and how long time 
i; required for it I The Anemone which 1 have now before me, Decem- 
ber 1758, wa> formed in the Autumn of i~553 and has been all this time 
nurfed under the bofom of the earth, and under covert of innumerable 
fcales. It is a piece of the original Root, and has been all thofe years 
forming; firlt nouriflied by tlie Root, ard then by Fibres of its own. 
This we find is the conflant courfe of Nature, by taking up the Root at 
various feafoivs, in fucceffion. And certainly it is worth the while to en- 
quire, Wliat is the internal firadture of the increafing Bud from its firfi: 
appearance ; how the ) oung Plant is formed ; and by what fiages it attains 
perfedtion. 
The Rudiment of a new Bud is alvvay formed at the time when a Stalk 
fncots from the Root f r flowering : the lame force of Nature effedfs both 
thefe purpofes ; therefore tl'iC firR enquiry after the origin of a Bud, mull: 
he in a Root iufi lending up its flowering Stalk : and to avoid confulion cf 
parts, it is bell to chufe a new Root, juft puflflng lor its firft Flower. 
Dissecting this Root length wife, we find it is compofed of the ufual 
feven parts; i. a brown outer Bark; 2. a whitifh fpungy inner Rind; 3. 
a white Blea ; 4. a Vafcular Series ; 5. a Flelhy Subllance, which is refi- 
nous and yellow ; 6. a feries of Conic Clufters of VelTels; and 7. a vaft 
Pith. This is the conftrudlion of the body of the Root. The Dead has 
the fame compofition exadlly ; but the Pith bears more than double the 
proportion there to any of the other parts. This exadtly receiving water 
as a fpunge, caufes the fwelling ; and from the Flefh covering it there, rife 
the Shoots. The interior part of this Head is ftill terminated by its original 
and proper Bud ; and from this rife the Stalk and Leaves ; the Stalk from 
the end, and the Leaves on each fide. 
It was in the year 1756 I began thefe enquiries; and I feledled for the 
purpofe a number of young Roots, then ready for their firft bloom. Upon 
one of thefe I began the experiments; and the reft were planted in the 
ufual manner the fucceeding years, to mark the formation and progrefs of 
the Bud, which afterwards was to be a compleat Root. 
A FLOWERING Root of the kind juft mentioned, being fplit lengthwife, 
we fee the whole fubftance of it is contradled, at the upper extremity, into 
a kind of neck ; and thence arifes the Stalk, Fig. 2, e. 
The 
