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

by Nehemiah Grew

Fig. 7.

Sheweth the Root of Berbery in the Traverse Cut.

aaa The Cortical Body or Barque.

The white Lines are the Insertions.

The Black Specks are the Pores of the Lignous Body.

Fig. 8.

aaaa The Cortical Body as appearing in a Turnep cut athwart.

acdacd The Lignous Body, or the several Shoots thereof represented in their Ranks, by the black Lines; the Pricks made along the Lines being the Terminations of the said Shoots or Fibres; not visible except in a thin slice, or after the Surface of the Turnep, being cut, is well dried.

cccc The Cortical Body inserted betwixt the Shootings of the Lignous: or the Pith.

ab ab A piece of the Cortical Body taken off, that its own Insertions (eeee) and the Osculations of the Lignous may be seen; which is best done after the Insertions are a little dried and shrunk.