


Book IL of Roots. 
Sus, Ferufalem Artichoke, Potato, Dog-ftones, Monks-hood, little Celan- 
dine, and others. In which Plants, one or more of their Roots are 
firm, the other {pongy and fuperannuated 5 and partly, by the ravine 
a fis Trunk, and other younger Roots, reduced to a Confumption and 
eath, 
17. §. With thefe, T/ips,and other Bulbous-Roots confort : For the fe- 
veral Rides & Shells,whereof chiefly,the Bu/b confitts,{acceffively perifh 
and fhrink up into fo many thin and dry skis; betwixt which,and in 
their Centre, other Leaves and Shells, being fucceflively formed, the 
Bulb is thus perpetuated. In the fame manner the Striag-Raots alfo fac- 
ceed one another annually. So that at the end of divers Years, although 
it be ftill looked upon as the fame Individual Root, yet it is, in truth, 
Another, as to every particle thereof, 
18. §. Laftly, many other Roots are perpetuated by the aforefaid 
Defcent of the Trazk; out of which, it is {till annually Repaired, as 
by the gradual _perifhing of its lower parts, it is Diminifhed 5 as hath 
been faid.. Whence alfo we fee the reafon of the Rugged and Blunt 
extremities of thefe, and fome other Roots, as of that Plant fuperftiti- 
oufly called Devils-bit : becaufe the end of it feems to be bitten off 
Yet doth it not appear fo originally 3 but the Lower part thereof rot- 
ting off, as the Upper defcends; the living remainder, becometh 
ftumped, or feemeth Bitten, Thus far of the Origival, Shapes, Moti- 
ons, and Ages of Roots. 


CHAP. I]: ; 
Of the SKIN. 
G98 NEXT proceed to the feveral Paris whereof a 
Root is Compounded, The outer Part of all is the 
Skins which iscommon to all Roots. ’Tis diverfly 
Coloured; Whiter in Skirrets; Yellow, in Dock 5 
LS) Red, in Potato; Brown, in Lovage; Black, y Bu- 
ZS. glofs. Its Suiface, fometimes Smooth, as in Hor/- 
SSSSOWSS Onn Rough, asin Scorzonera. And the Skins 
of the feveral Shells of a Tulip-Root, taken up frefh, look as if they 
were perforated with a great many {mall holes, . “Tis of various Size 3 
very Thin, in Parfuep 3 fomewhat Thick, in Buglofs 5 very Thickin Iris. 
Sometimes it is Opacous, as in Thiffle 5 and fometimes Tranfparent, as 
in Madder. ‘ 
2. §. Every Root hath fucceffively two kinds of Sdiws: the one, 
Coétaneous with the other Parts; and hath its original from that 
which involveth the Parts of the seed it felf, The other, Poftnate, 
fucceeding in the room of the former, asthe Root ageth; and is ori- 
nated from the Bark. Soin Dandelyon, the old skin, looked upon 
about the beginning of May, feems to have been one of thofe feverai 
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