Fig. 13. Representeth a quarter of a slice of a Branch of Plum-tree of 5 years growth, cut transversly.
ABCD. The Bark.
VW. The outer and more laxe and simple Parenchyma.
HI. One sort of Sap-vessels, postured in small oblong parcels.
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Fig. 13. Representeth a quarter of a slice of a Branch of Plum-tree of 5 years growth, cut transversly.
ABCD. The Bark.
VW. The outer and more laxe and simple Parenchyma.
HI. One sort of Sap-vessels, postured in small oblong parcels.
SSS. The same Vessels more numerous, and in smaller parcels, making a kind of ring.
DTC. A ring of Sap-vessels of another, viz. the more general kind.
DCFE. The Wood.
DL, LN, &c. The several annual rings of Wood.
XXX. The true Wood.
XYXY. The Air-vessels.
KL, MN, OP, &c. So many rings of Air-vessels, (on the inner edge of every ring of wood) much larger than the rest.
SSS. The great Insertions running through the several rings of wood from the Pith into the Bark.
STT. The small Insertions.
EFG. The Pith.