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13. §. The feveral Fébers in the stalk, are all Inofculated in the 
Leaf, with very many Sub-divifions. According as thefe Fibers are 
Inofculated near, or at, or thoot direétly to the edge of the Leaf, 
is it Even, or Scallopd. Where thefe Ivofeulations are not made, 
there we have no Leaves, but only a company of Filaments as in 
Fennel. 
14. §. Tothe Formations of Leaves, the Frouldings immediately 
follow. And fometimes they have one Date, or are the contemporary 
works of Natures each Leaf obtaining its diftin® fhape, and proper 
pofture together ; both being perfec, not only in the outer, but Gen- 
tral and minuteft Leaves, which are five hundred times {maller than the 
outer: both which in the Cautious opening of a Germen may be feen. 
15. §- Nor is there greater Art inthe Forms, than in the Foulds 
or Poftures of Leaves ; both anfwerably varying, as this or that way 
they may be moft agreeable. Of the Quincuncial pofture,fo amply in- Theat, of the 
ftane'd in by the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, I {hall omit to fpeak. Quincunx. 
Others there are, which though not all fo univerfal, yet equally ne- 
ceflary where they are, giving two general advantages to the Leaves, 
Elegancy and Security, fe. in taking up, fo as their Forms will bear, 
the leaft room; and in being {0 conveniently couch’d, as to be capable 
of receiving protection from other Parts, or of giving it one to ano- 
ther 5 as for inftance, 
16. §. Firft, There is the Bow-Lap, where the Leaves are all 
laid fomewhat convexly one over another, but not plaited ; being to 
the length, breadth and number of Leaves moft agreeable 5 as in the 
Buds of Pear-tree, Plum-tree, &c. But where the Leaves are not fo 
thick fet, as to ftand in the Bow-Lap, there we have the Plicature, or 
the Flat-Lap 5 asin Rofe-Tree, Strawberry, Cinquefoyl, Burnet, &c. Fort 
the Leaves being here plaited, and fo lying in half their breadth, and 
divers of them thus alfo collaterally {et together the thicknefs of 
them all, and half their breadth, are much alike dimenfions; by which 
they ftand more fecure within themélves, and in better confort with 
other Germen-Growths in the fame Traft. If the Leaves be much in- 
dented or jagg’d, now we have the Duplicature ; wherein there 
are divers Plaits in one Leaf, or Labels of a Leaf, but in diftin& 
Sets, a leffer under a greater; as in Souchys, Taufey, &c. When 
the Leaves ftand not collaterally , but fingles and are moreover 
very broad; then we have the Multiplicatures as in Goofeberries, Mal- 
lows, &e. the Plaits being not only divers in the fame Leaf, but of 
the fame Set continuant, and fo each Leaf gather'd up in five, feven 
or more Fouids, in the fame manner as our Gentlewomens Fans, 
Where either the thicknes of the Leaf will not permit a Fiat-Lap, or 
the fewnefé of their number, orthe fmalne of their Fibers, will allow 
the Rowi,there This may be obferved. Which is fometimes fingle, as in 
Bears-Ears, Arum, Flammula, Jerufalem Comflip, &c. Sometimes dou- 
ble, the two Rowls beginning at each edge of the Leaf; and meeting 
in the middle. Which again, is either the Fore-Rowl, or the Back 
Rowl. If the Leaf be defign’d to grow long, now we have the Back- 
Rowl, as in Docks, Sorrels, and the reft of this Kindred: as alfo in 
Primrofe, and other like Plamts. . For the iain Fibers, and there- 
with aconfiderable part of the Cortical Body {tanding prominent from 
the Back-fide of the Leaf, they thus ftand fecurely couch’d up be- 
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