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their different Ages. In a fine groupe or cluftcr of Roots, that came 
laft Summer from Guernfay, and had flood here for fomc time in the 
Ground, and afterwards in a Pot in my own Parlour, the Mother 
Pvoot had fix Leaves, the longcfl of which, on the 9th of November, 
mcafured full nine Inches, and was, above half an Inch in breadth j 
and by the 30/^ of the lame Month, it was eleven Inches high, iia- 
ving gained two Inches in three weeks time. 
Cornutus has taken notice of the Leaves of flowering Plants only, 
and he has laid but very little, even about thefe : According to him 
they do not appear till the Stalk decays, and they are of a plealant 
green Colour, folia vero non nifitabido Cauli erumpunt, quorum color 
non glaucus nec obfeurus fed grata vinditate renidet. Whether by 
the time the Leaves appear, the Stalk may not be in a State of Decay, 
1 fliall not difputf j but 'tis certainly a confidcrable time after, before 
any fuch thing becomes fcnfible either to the Eye or Touch. 
CAULIS FLORIGER. 
T H E CauliSi Stalk or Flower Stem arifes, as has been already 
obferved from the hard Subftance in the bottom of the Bulb j 
and about the middle nf Avgufl^ or ibrnetimcs later, it begins to 
fprout out, or appear above the top of the Root, being very fmooth, 
and without Leaves during its ^whole Length. 
That Part of the Stalk which is within the Coats of the Root, 
is of a whitifh Colour : for about three or four Inches above the 
Root, it inclines to a dark Red with a Purple call ; but afterwards 
that infcnfibly palfes into a Green, which is continued upon all the 
reft of the Stalk. 
When it dries and withers, the Green is changed into a kind of 
Straw-colour, and the Purple-red into a lighter. 
The Figure of the Stalk is not exactly Cylindrical, but rather that 
of a Solid, whofc Bafis is an Ellipfe, for it is a little deprefled or 
flattened on two oppofite Sides, and when it begins to dry, after 
the Flowers are decayed, it becomes thin, with two or three longi- 
tudinal Ridges upon it. 
The length of the Stalk, in a Plant in full Bloom, is always be- 
tween thirteen and feventeen or eighteen Inches, meafured from 
the top of the Root, to the rife of the Perianthium. The length 
of the Stalk, whence I took my Figure, was juft fourteen Inches. 
The Circumference at the top of the Root is exa<flly an Inch, and 
towards 
