The anatomy of plants with an idea of a philosophical history of plants, and several other lectures, read before the royal society / by Nehemjah Grew ...

CHAP. II. Of the Root.

THis also to be Dissected, §. 1. The Skin hereof, its Original, 2. The Cortical Body, its Original, 3. Texture, 4. Pores, 5. Proportions, 6. The Lignous Body, its Original, 7. Texture, 8. Pro∣portions, 9. The Insertment, its Original, 10. Pores, 11. Number and Size, 12. A fuller description hereof, with that of the Osculations of the Lignous Body, 13, 14, 15. The Pith, its original sometimes from the Seed, 16. Sometimes from the Barque, 17. Its Pores, 18, 19. Pro∣portions, 20. Fibres of the Lignous Body therein, 21. The Pith of those Fibres, 22, How the Root grows, and the use of the Skin, Cor∣tical

and Lignous Body thereto, 23. How it groweth in length, 24. By what means it descends, 25. How it grows in breadth, 26▪ And the Pith, how thus framed, 27. The use of the Pith, 27. Of the Insert∣ment, 28. The joynt service of all the Parts. 29, 30, 31.