VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
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In the fpllt Stalk, at Letter ay we fee the FleOi-VcfTels, large and few 
in number, purfuing their plain courfe up the Stalk ; at the bafe of the 
Fruit, by they divide j and in the Column, f, which runs up the middle of 
the Fruit, they are fmaller, and more numerous. 
Luxuriant Nourilhment having been afforded them, at the point d, 
this Column fplits ; and inftead of one Crown, the natural termination of 
a Pineapple Fruit, there are formed two of thofe iielhy bafcs, ej\ and 
thefe fending out Leaves, as ufual, there are two Crowns formed in the 
place of one. 
On one fide this middle Column of Flelli- Vefi'els has fent out a num- 
ber of Clufters of finall Branches, as is ufual, and thefe keep their natural 
courfe and proper fize j and run to the Tubercles for which they are def- 
tined, in a right form for conlfituting Filaments in the intended Flowers 
of the Plant: thefe Tubercles therefore keep their natural form j and 
even, on the other fide, there are two or three Cluders, h h, which hold 
the fime unaltered condition, and therefore terminate at natural Tubercles : 
but for the moft part on this fide the figure; and thro’ the greater part (if 
the body of the Fruit, we fee thofe Clufiers of Branches from the central 
column of Flelh-Veflels, which fliould have held the minute condition of 
thofe at^ gy and h by in Fig. i ; and of all thofe, i i, in Fig. 2. enlarged to 
a degree in which they are no longer Clufiers of Ramifications, but fo ma- 
ny Columns of full Veffels, as at i i i i /, Fig. i. like in dimenfions, and 
in form, to the natural central Column in the Fruit. As they are like thofe 
in their nature, they mufi: terminate as they do; not in Filaments, but 
in proper Crowns. This is the termination we fee they have at ^ ^ 
and thus the Pineapple becomes Proliferous. 
C H A P. XL. 
Of the EXTERNAL FoRM andPARTS of Plants* 
TJAVING now gone thro’ the confideration of the inner firudfure 
of Vegetable Bodies, the courfe of their Juices, and their manner of 
growth, we may rationally proceed to take a general and particular view 
of the feveral parts which are formed and fed by thofe VelTels, and that 
courfe of Juice. According to thefe the whole Vegetable Kingdom is ar- 
ranged, firfi into fcven great families ; and afterwards into the leffer dif- 
tributions of Clalfes, Orders, Genera, and Species. As the knowledge of 
the 
