The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun / With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereon

by Nehemiah Grew

c The Plume.

bc The Pith.

aeeee The distribution of the Navel-Fibre in the Lobes; all becoming the seminal Root, describ’d in [the first Chapter].

Fig. 6.

aaaa A Slice of the Root of a Tree.

cccc The Cortical Body or Barque.

e The Pith.

The black Pieces are the Shootings of the Lignous Body.

The Specks therein are its Pores.

The White Pieces are the Insertions of the Cortical Body.