




The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
Your Majefty will bere fee, That there are thofe . 
things within a Plant, tittle lefs admirable, than 
within an Animal. That a Plant, as well as an 
Animal, is compofed of feveral Organical’ Parts ; 
fome whereof may be called its Bowels. That eve- 
vy Plant bath Bowels of divers kinds, conteining 
divers kinds of Liquors. T bat even a Plant lives 
partly upon Aer; for the reception whereof, it hath 
thofe Parts which areanfwerable to Lungs. So that 
a Plant is, as it were, an Animal in Quires; as an 
Animals a Plant, or rather feveral Plants bound up 
into one Volume. 
Again, that all the faid Organs, Bowels, or otber 
Parts, are as artificially made; and for their Place 
and Number, as punttually fet together; as all the 
Mathematick Lines of 4 Flower or Face. That 
the Staple of the Stuff is fo exquifitely fine, that 
no Silk-worm is able to draw any thing near fo {mall 
a Thred. So that one who walks about with the 
meancft Stick, bolds a Piece of Natures Handicraft, 
which far furpaffes the most elaborate Woof or 
Needle-W ork i the World. 
That by all thefe Means, the Afcent of the Sap, 
the Diftribution of the Aer, the Confection of fe- 
— weral forts of Liquors, as Lympha’s, Milks, Oyls, 
Balfames; with other parts of Vegetation, are all 
contrived and brought about in a Mechanical way. 
In 
