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V EG ETABLE STRUCTURE. 
perfedl Plant is (hewn dlffedted. We fee there the illiiftration at large of 
\vhat vve traced out in the Bud in little ; and perceive diftindtly how each 
portion of the original fubftance forms its part of the Flower ; and in that 
terminates. 
The Leaves which rife firft, ferve only to draw moifture from the air, 
to evaporate the abundance of that received from the earth, and to keep 
up the courfe of a circulation in the Juices, while the Bud is forming. 
The Stalk, which afterwards fupports the Flower, is raifed originally from 
the Flefli of the Root. It is covered with abfolute continuations of the 
Blea and Rinds, and is nothing more than a lengthening of that Neck by 
which the Rudiment of the Flower was firfl connedted to the head of the 
Root ; which Neck is no dillindl fubflance, but only the place where the 
arch of Flcfh rifes from the Root ; and the part where the feveral Coats 
become firft attenuated for the formation of a Flower. The Flower is 
the enlarged Bud which crowned the head of the Procefs ; and the Stalk 
is the continued Root fupporting it above ground : it is no way altered but 
in confequence of that fituation. 
To trace the parts, and to afcertain this fyftem, I have reprefented an 
entire Plant of the Anemone in flower, cut open, with its Root, even to 
the extream Fibres. 
Beginning with that point at the Head or Crown of the Root where 
the original Vegetative Power refided, the whole is thus performed. 
The Flefhy Subfiance, which was the original point, now furrounds 
the Pith of the Root, in form of a greenifh line. Fig. 2, //; and from 
the part m, whence it began to grow when firfl formed, rifes a Procefs or 
part of its furface^ which forms the Flefli of the Stalk of the Plant; the 
other way alfo from the fame point runs the full Coat of Flefh, following 
the form of the body of the Root obliquely downward. This Fleffly Sub- 
ftance which furrounds the Pith of the Root, fends portions of itfelf into 
the Fibres, covered with the proper Coats ; and in thefe there is a Pith, 
but not continuous with that of the body of the Root. Thefe Fibres are 
of a vaft length, and at their ends are very minute ; but they are not open 
at the extremity, as has been thought. They are clofed ; and the feveral 
fubflances which compofe them furround the Pith there, as they do elfe- 
where ; but the whole Rind is fpungv. That nourifliment which was 
hitherto fuppofed to be drawn in at their extremities, is abforbed by the 
whole furface. Thus I fufpedt it is alfo with the Lymphatick Veflcls of 
Animals : indeed, I think, I have feen it. 
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