From this general View of the Root, it is now time to proceed to 
the particular Parts whereof it conMs, which arc the Bafis, Tunicks, 
and Fibers. 
The Bafis or lower part of the Root, called by the learned Mai- 
])ighi (in Plants of this kind) Truncus Radicalism is a folid and hard 
Subftance. of a whitifh yellow Colour, and round or circular Figure; 
from whence the Tunicay Leaves^ Stalk, Fibrilla, and Ojf-fetts do 
all arife. This in all the breeding Roots is very large. 
The Bulb itfelf, both Belly and Neck, is commonly made up of 
twelve Tunicks or Coats, that cover one another; being kept tight, 
and bound clofe in their Places, by means of fmall, fhort, tranfverfe 
Fibres; together with a flimy, vifeid, roapy Humour, that moiftens 
their Sides, and glews them as it were together. 
Thcfc Coats may very well be divided into roundilh and longitudinal. 
Thefirft are Six in Number, and form the belly and beginning, or 
biggeft part of thej Neck j the Coatsj that remain I call longitudinal, 
becaufc they are carried ftreight up from the Bafis, within the other 
Six or Seven, and make the fmaller part of the Neck ; they imme- 
diately cover, fupport, and Ilrengthcn the Leaves like fo many Cafes^ 
ending in different Plans. 
The top of each of thefe long Tunicks is tipt and lengthened out 
by a kind of dry, (hrivePd, thin Skin, or Film, with ftreight Fibres, which 
is nothing clfe but the remains of the frefh Leaf continued with them, 
Thefe fevcral Skins cafily feparate from one another, and fo appear 
tore or ragged, they feem defigned for warm Coverings, to thofc 
Tunica which lye under them, as the Involucra arc to the Bulb. 
On the infidc of all the Tunicks, efpccially the fix outermoft, the 
fame fort of Veflels are vifible, which we already took notice of, in 
the inner Involucrum. 
In a flowering Plant, the Difpofition ofthefe Tunicks is a little varied. 
Both Leaves and Stalk are cover'd by nine Coats. When thefe arc 
removed on the out fide of the Stalk, there appears a half Coat, very 
thick, and bunching out a little at Bottom ; but it grows thinner as it 
rifes higher, and the top of it is tipt with a thin dry Skin like the reft. 
The Leaves arc cover'd a-part by two longitudinal Coats, which 
arc much thicker at bottom than the other State; and indeed quite 
through, much ftrongcr. 
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