i66 VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
this, and run' their courfe up the whole height that It is carried in the fuc- 
ceeding growth of the Plant. This is the fourth ftage of the Seedling 
Body : and it confids now of five fubflances ; or more properly, the ori- 
ginal Particle has formed three Coats outward, and a kind of marrow in- 
ward. 
Two more parts are to be produced, and then all will be perfe(fl : thefe 
are the outer Rind, and the Conic Clufters of V^fTcls. The Vtfllds which 
open upon the furface now are few, but they difcharge fome fluid ; this 
condenfes as the former had done, and makes another Coat of the Plant, a 
fourth cover to the original Particle ; it is the outer Bark. The Conic 
Clufliers alfo rife between the Flefli and Pith ; and all is now perfedt. 
Thus we fee of what parts a perfcdl Vegetable confifts, and how thofe 
parts are formed. It has been thought all arofe of the Pith : but that led 
to many errors. A fedfion of one of thefe young Roots of an Anemone 
will fhew the fyflem here eftablifhed plainly : and tho’ it differs a little in 
the order of produdlion, it is the fame in all other refpedts as in the for- 
mer inftances. 
Fibres have their Pith as well as the body of the Root : but the Pith 
of the Fibres is not a continuation of the Pith in the body of the Root ; 
nor has any the leaft connedfion with it. The Flefliy Subflance, which 
was the original part, is now continued entire round the Pith in the body 
of the Root j and feparates the Fibre wholly from it. That Fibre is a 
continuation of the original Flefhy Subflance, and has the fame Coats con- 
tinued ; but the Pith itfelf is fecreted diflindfly from the body of the Root, 
and from the Fibre ; and having not been formed when the Fibre was pro- 
duced, it is not, nor can be continued from it into the Root. 
Thus is formed, in the Seedling Anemone, an abfolute and perfedt 
Vegetable, before there is the leafl growth of a Stalk : and if it be fo in 
all Plants, as I have found it to be in many, they talked wildly who have 
faid they law the perfedf future Herb in the Seed. The Plant is to be 
‘nourifhed from the Root ; and Nature has a great deal to do in the Root 
before it comes to that condition. 
All this time a Root only is formed ; with fome faint approach to- 
ward Radical Leaves j and all the parts, even of the Root, are very tender, 
tho’ the Microfeope can ihew them thus diflindliy. The growth has ail 
been from one point ; and that keeps its place at the anterior extremity of 
the Root : there the Microfeope f!ie\vs the minute and dulky Rudiment of 
a Flower, inc’ofed in the Leaf which is to ferve it hereafter, as a cup j and 
this is all. The Stalk is accidental, and a trifle ; it has no place in the 
Rudiment ^ 
