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The Anatomy Book IV. 
Leaves, they are Small 5 in Wild Clary, a Lefler Leaf, they are very 
Large. In the Body of the Leaf, fometimes the Sides of the greater 
Bladders, are made up of lefler ones 3 asin Borage. 
7. §. Infome Leaves, thefe Parenchymous Fibres are all drawn clofe 
up together, IntheFormer, they are as the Threds in the Opex-work 
of Bone-Lace; in Thefe, as the fame Threds, in the Cloth-work. 
8. §. The Pithy Part, in the Stalk , and almoft up to the Top of 
the chief Fiber, in many Leaves, is Tubular 3 even whilft they are yet 
Young and Sappy: as in Sweet Chervil, Hemlock , Endive, Cichory, 
Lampfana, Dandelion, Burdock, Daifye, Scorzonera, and others. And 
fometimes the {aid Pithy Part is opened into feveral little Pipes, like fo 
many Aer-Vefels, above } a Foot long; as in the Common Dock and the 

_ Little Spurge, by fome called Wart-Wort. 
Tab. 49. 
Lab. 49. 
Tab: 49. 
9. §. THE Strings of the Leaf, or thofe Fibres which are vili- 
ble to the bare Eye, are compofed of Veféls of the Two General 
Kinds, fc, for Sap, and for Aer. They are joyntly diftributed through- 
out the Leaf: Yetnot f0, asto run meerly parallel; as in Animals, 
every Artery hath itsVein : but the Aer-Veffels are every where Inclofed, 
oras it were fheathed in the Sap-Veffels. 
to. §. THEIR Pofition is various and regular, not only in the 
Body of the Leaf, asis above fhewed 5 but likewife in the stalk: of 
which alfo I have given feveral Inftances in the Firft Book, I thall 
here note, and more particularly defcribe,One or Two more. In the 
Stalk of a Maow- Leaf, they ftand in Six Oblong Parcels of equal Size, 
and ina Rig near the Circuit. Whereby the Stalk is {tronger, the 
Growth hereof, before and behind, more equal, and fo the pofture 
of the Leaf more ere. 
tr. §. In Dandelyon, they ftand in Five Parcels: of which the 
Greater ftands a little behind the Centre of the Stalk; figured into a 
very {mall Half-Moox or Semi-Tube, whofe Diametre, through a Glafs, 
is not above 3th ofan Inch. The other Four, are extream {mall Cy- 
linders. Altogether make an Azgle,twice as big as that ofa V Confonant. 
Whereby, although the stal4 be {trong enough to fupport the younger 
Leaves ; yet thofe which are grown longer, and fo not only by their 
Bulk, but their farther Extenfion from the Center of Gravity, are 
become more weighty ; commonly lie flat on the Ground, 
12. §. InWald Clary, they ftand alfo in Five Parcels, the Greater 
ftands not behind, but before the Centers making an Arch, whofe Chord 
in a Gla, isabove $ anInch long; and belongeth toa Circle, whofe 
Diameter is an Inch and half. The other Four, are {mall C ylinders, alfo 
ditferent from thofe in Dandelion, the two bigger, there ftanding 
_ hindmoft; but here, the two Lefs, and the two Bigger, within the 
two round Ridges of the Stalk, 
13. §. From henceit is, that the Leaves of this Plant have not on- 
ly a Prove or Horizontal Pofture,but alfo make that Forceable Preffure on 
the Ground, which can by no means be imputed to their Weight. For 
the Great Arched-Fibre ftanding before the Centre of the Stalk, and 
thetwo Longer Round ones being uppermoft, in the Ridges of the 
Stalk they put on the upper parts thereof to a more full and for- 
ward Growth, and fo to bow the Leafback-ward. And the Fibrous 
Arch being, though broad, yet almoft flat, doth hereby the more ea- 
fily yield co that Motion. 
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