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Tab. 7,89. 
Tab. 73, 95 
& 10, 
The Anatomy Book H. 
23. §. THE sap-Veffls, are not only of divers Kinds, in divers 
Roots, but inthe fame, Whether in all, I doubt : but in fome it -is 
certain they are: For if you cut a Fevil-Root traverfe, both Mik and 
Limpid Sap, will prefently afcend, and, upon accurate infpettion , 
appear thereupon dinftinétly. So the Roots, both of Trachelinm and 
Enula, Bleed both a Lympha, anda Citrine Balfame: and Wormwood, 
both a Lympha, anda Terebinth, at the fame time. So alfothe Root 
of Dandelion being cut in November, feems to bleed both a asilk.. 
and a Lympha; the latter being drowned by the former at another 
time when it is more copious. Whether all Roots have Lympheduits, 
is doubtful 5 but ’tis moft probable, that they have, more or fewer 5 
ftanding, for the moft part, in a Ring, at the Inner Verge of the 
Bargque: the Sap whereof, I fuppofe, is fo far of common Nature in 
all Roots, as to be Clear, and lefs Oily. 

24. g. THE Quantity of thefe Vefels is very different: In Borage, 
Peony, Biftort, but few 5 in Afparagus, fewer: in Parfnep, Celandine, 
many; in Fenil, Mar(h-mallow, many more: and betwixt thefe ex- 
treams, there aremany Degrees, as by comparing the Roots of Horfé- 
Radifh, Turnep, Briony, Skirrets, Parfley, Goats-Beard, and as many 
more as you pleafe, may be feen. _Amongft the feveral Sorts of Docks, 
they feem in Patience, to be the feweft; in Red-Dock, the moft nu- 
merous. There are two ways of judging of their Number 5 Either 
astheir Extremeties are vifible upon the traverfe cut of the Barque 5 
or as the Barque is diverfly Brittle or Tough 5 being fo, from the va- 
rious Number of thefe Ve/els therein, as in the Second Chapter hath 
been faid. , 
a5. §. The Quantity of the afcending Sap, is a doubtful argu- 
ment, whether of the Number, or Size of thefe Vefels. For it is 
common to moft Milky-Roots, for the Milk to afcend more copioufly: 
yet in fome of them, the Veféls feem, in proportion with the Paren- 
chymous Part, not to be fo numerous, as in fome other Roots, where 
the afcending Sp isles as by comparing the Laéfeals of Dandelion, 
and the Lymphedudts of Fenil together, may appear: fo that it fhould 
feem, that the bore of the Laéfeal Vefels, is greater than that of the 
Lymphadudts. 
26. §. THE Situation of thefe Veféls, as they appear, even to 
the naked Eye, in the tranfverfe Section, is Various and Elegant. 
Sometimes they are pofited only at the Inner Edg of the Barque, where 
they make a Ring, asin Ajparagus. In which place and pofition, they 
ftand in moft, if notin all, Roots, how varioutlly foever they are po- 
fited alfo otherwife. The Common Crow-Foot with numerous Roots, 
hath a Ring of Sap-Veffels next the Skin. So the Barque of Monks- . 
Hood, is encompaffed with a tranfparent Ring of Sap-Vefels. The 
Ring is either more Entire, as in Eryngo, Brown-Wort, Valerian, Hop, 
Madder, Gc. Or itis a Prick'd Ring, as in Buttyr-Bur. Sometimes 
they are chiefly poftur’d in a Prick-Ring, towards the outward part of 
the Barque, asin Peony: and fome Roots are pricked all over the 
Barque, as of Melilot. In others, they ftand not fo much in Pricks, 
as Portions or Colums, as in Cumfry- 
97. §. 

