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The Anatomy Book IV. 
3. § AND Firft, itis obfervable of the young Buds of Anmi, 
that left they fhould be bruifed, or ftarved, upon their firft Erupts- 
on from under the Ground; they are couched, as Firz is rowld, in- 
ward; each Bud, againft the Bafe_of the Stalk of the foregoing 
Leaves, and moft exaétly laid up within the Membraves thence pro- 
duced : Juft as the Child in the Womb, lics with his Head again{t his 
Knees; or as it is afterwards embraced with the Armes of the 
Nurfe. And it is a general Rule of Nature, where the Stalks of 
the Leaves are fo long, that they cannot lap one over another, and 
where no other fpecial Protection is provided 5 for the bottoms of the 
Stalks to be produced into broad Membranes, as Blankets to the fuc- 
ceeding Buds 5 as in Crowfoot, Dovesfoot, Claver, Cransbill, Stray- 
berry, Yarrow, and others, And fometimes inftead of two shins 
lapped one over another, there is one entire Skin, produced from the 
Stalk, in which as within a Secundine,the Bud is fafely throwded 3 and 
which, inits Growth, it gradually breaks open. 
4. §. THE fame isalfo obfervable in Dock, Sorrel, Biftort, and 
all other Plants of this Kindred; with this difference, That every 
Veil or Secundineis not here produced from the Stalk of the Leaf but 
hath its Original Distin# from it. And whereas in the former, every 
Bud hath only one to it felf: inthefe Plants, every leffer Leaf, toge- 
ther with its own proper Vei/, is always inclofed, with the next greater 
Leaf, in another Veil common to them both ; and both thefé with the 
next, in another 5 and fo on tothe greateft. Thefe Veils are extream 
thin, and have very few Veféls, being fo many meer tranfparent 
Shins, For which reafon, there is always found a Maucilage or clear 
Gelly, between every Leaf, and its Veil, and between Veil and Keil, 
The one, thus preferving the other, (as do the Hymors and Mem- 

’ branes of the Eye.) from drying and fhrinking up, and thereby from 
becoming ufelefs for the Protedfion of the Plant. 
5- §- THE Orchis, and other Plants of this kindred, becaufe they 
Spring and Flower early, when the mornings are cold, have a double 
Sheath, or Blanket over all. The Buds of fome Herbs (as of Plantain) 
having no Hairs growing on them,are covered with Hairy Thrams. And 
the Nettle hath Bastard-Leaves, or Inierfoyls between Leaf and Leaf, 
for the prefervation of its Stings. 
6. § ANOTHER Sort of Protecfiou is en in Wild Clary, 
White Archangel, and other Plants of a like Shape. In which, the 
greater Leaves do fill cover and inclofe the leffer, not by being lapped 
over them, as. where the Leaves are more numerous, is uftial ; but by a 
Double Fore-Curl at the bottom of every two greater Leaves ; by which 
the little Under- Bud is embraced, and fo kept. fafe and warm. 
7.§. THE Leaves of Onions are all Pipes one within another. 
Thefe Pipes are every where entire, faving about the middle, where 
they have a fmall Aperture; common to all of them, even the moft 
minute in the Centre: not being a forced Crack, but a Door ori- 
ginally formed, for the iffuing of every lefler Pipe, out of a greater. 
& § THE LAST I hall give, is that which is remarkable in 
Common Sumach. The Buds whereof, being exceeding tender, Nature 
appears follicitous in a peculiar manner, for their prefervation. For 
whereas in other Plants, they are well enough fecured only by ftanding 
behind the stalks of the elder Leaves: here they are lodged within the 
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