NATURAL HISTORY. 
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fulcra ; the leaves, folia the flowers* 
fiores ; and the fruit, fru^us. 
I. RADIX— T'-tf ROOT, 
I S that part of the plant which adheres to 
the ground, from whence it draws its nou- 
rilhment. 
Roots are eithet fibrous, bulbous, or tu- 
berous. 
The fibrous root is either perpendicular, 
horizontal, flefliy as the carrot, hairy as the 
roots of grafs, or branching. 
Bulbous roots, (among which are ^ the 
fnow-drop, hyacinth, and tulip) are either 
folid, as the turnip ; coated, as the onion ; 
fcaled, as the lily ; double as the orchis 
or cluftered, as the white fax frage. 
Tuberous roots are compoied of many 
flefliy tubers, as the garden ranunculus ; 
and either adhere clofely to the ftalk, or are 
fufpended from it by threads. 
2. TRUNCUS— TAf TRUNK, 
R ises immediately from the root, and 
fuft ains the branches. This part is called 
a trunk in trees, niid a flalk in plants. 
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