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Show Book I. Part IV. Liquor like Turpentine del'tilleth, which depurateth the aliment of Flowers, as Learned Malpigbim conceiveth. In fruitful branches the Pipes of Air and Sap are fo many preparing ch. fels, feared in the Cups and laws of the Flowers, and flamizm, wherein the Liquor being concocted by the heat of the Sun, is refined, and afterward the purer part is conveyed to the Styliform Procefs, in whofe bofom the firi} elements of Seeds are formed, and by degrees they and the Womb acquire greater and greater perfcéiion. Having defcribed the Seminal Organs of Plants, the (_3ups and Flowers, confifiing of Leaves, Filaments, and Styliform Procefs, in its firfl: origen or draught; my defign at this time is to give you a farther delineation of the womb of Plants, how it arriveth a greater maturity, in which the Eggs or ' Seeds of Plants are conferved. In a Fig, called by the Italians Ficogemz'le, The Fruit or Womb is made up of apulpy reddifh Matter, which is the Liquor (embodied With Air, deftilling out of the Sap and Air-veflcls ) concreted into a fort and fweet fub- fiance, filling up the lnterfiices of the numerous Pipes, m which many round or oval whitifh Seeds are lodged: This delicate fubf'tance of the fruit of Figgs is enclofed with arhick Alli-coloured or light Brown Membrane, fecuring its tender frame, and that more firm ofleous Compagc of the Seeds agaiiifi; outward accidents. . When the Styliform Procefs originally feared in the flowers of Cherries and feveral forts of Plums, acquireth the perfection of a Womb, difcovered in the matured fruit, made up of many pipes of Air, and Sap tranfmitting their plcafant Juice into many little Bladders (feared in the Area: between the fruitful V'eflels) its purer particles are conveyed through the chinck of the Stone to the increafe and nourilhment of the Seed (which is lodged in the cavity of the Stone as in a Chm-ion rather than a Womb ) which [conceive to beihe fruit of thefe different Plants, encircled with divers Membranes, as having greater or lefs dimenfions, and hucd with feveralcolours. Thcwomhsof The womb of the Seeds of Peaches, Apricocks, Ncfiarins, and the like, :rf'fdciff 0,: is the fruit more firm than that of Cherries and Plums; and is integrated of gfiifdfstjc many Tubes of Air and Sap, attended With many little bladders of liquor, J annexed to the ramification of Veflels, having frequent Inofculations after the manner of Network; The fubftance of thch choice fruits proceedeth 0f the part; of Generation in T/mrr. 669 Apples have many Rines, fome fweer, other foure, among which they that being Pryled fragrant, as Pippius, Pcarmains, (9w. are molf excellenrand uleful in Phyfick, for which our Nation is very eminent. 'l his fruit is very large, and adorned with many vell"els of Air and Sip (derive d from the branches, to which they are faftned by the interpolition of lhllrs) which brill" concreted into a white pulpy fubftancc, makerh the body of the :‘xpole eii: clofed within a thick Coat, which may be called a commo n \r'oriil),[as con- Thewnmb uf' {ifiing Ofa company oiTubes, to which are appendant many little bladders of AWE" Liquor, of which the more refined Particles are tranfmitred to the Seeds, which are of a brownifh colour and enducd with a Conick figure, the and obtnfe Cone lyingupward and the more acute downward, is lalined to the lower part of the proper Womb; which indeed is manifold and feared about the center of the Apple near each other 5 and thefe proper wombs are divers, being greater, the feeds contained in them, which lometimes one or two, and fometimes three, are lodged in one womb, enducd with a firm Cartilaginous Coat. In moPt Plants adorned with Fruit, it is feated in the outward parts en- compalling the feed lodged in wombs in the middle of the fruit, but in Strawberries the order of Nature is inverted, by reafon the Seeds and the containing Wombs are placed near their circumference, and are furnilhed with many divaricarions of different chicls, climbing up from the fialks into the ambient parts of the Strawberries, which have allb many minute Bladders of delicate Liquor aflixed to the Tubes, accommodating the exterior parts of Sap-velfels (interfperfed with bladders of Juice) accompanying each other into the body of the Grape, in whofe center are lodged two or more feeds of a fiony difpofirion, and are formed of the Tartar, fevered from the foure Liquor, and turned into Stones or Seeds, encompaffed with peculiar Cavi- ties or Wombs, which with their many Tubes and Veficles of Liquor, are {=5- delicious fruit. A (llillcc hath a double womb, the one is the Flefh or 'szrenrbyma, ( fur- A Quince nilhcd with divers ranks of velfels and bladders of Juice) and made of foure Cmfifmm‘ from earthy and faline Particles, indurated into {tony fubltances; The body of this choice fruit is immured within a thick Coat, and in its center are many proper cavities or wombs of Seeds, endued with an obtufevCone in one ex- fruiirof the Pear inveficd with a Membrane, enclofing many vcflcls of Air and tremity, and with an acute in the other, which adhereth to the lower re- Sap, which being conveyed into the body of the Pear, is indurated into a white fuhltance, befet with many minute grifly, {tony Particles, which take gion of the Womb encircled with a Cartilaginous Coat. their rife from the earthy and faline parts of the Sap petrifying it into this hard Oranges, Limons, and Citrons, are moft excellent fragrant fruits, confifiing of many parts, the Kine, the juicy part, and the Seed, as the com- fubf'tance of the Pear; ‘which hath many proper wombs ( enclofing divers plement of the ref}. Seeds, coated with a deep brown or blackilh colour) and are many Cavi- . ties, feared in the center of Pears, to whofc lower region the Seed have thrilr The Rine hatha thin fragrant part which is yellow and more firm than the pulpy fubflanee, as more foft and white, both do encircle the juicy Compage matter, parts, or Ptalks conjoyncd, and thereby receive nourifhment from. and Seeds as their common womb. Veffels conveying nourilhment through the pores of Cartilaginous Coatia Tht-fe choice fruits have many proper Wombs, which are a kind of thin membranous fubfiance faftned in their ambient parts to the pulpy part of the Rine, from whence it is derived, as I conceive, and tranfmittcd to the cen- which are so many Wombs encircling and cherilhing feeds of Pears. Apples The Seeds of Grapes are [lony , and lodged in the inward rcccf: encircled with one common Coat, COUfCrVing the whole fine Compage of this concreted Liquor, befet with many fmall Peony bodies, borrowing their birth The Pear called by the Franc/2, Bear dc Roy, The Butter-Pear of the King (as I apprehend ) ham many wombs, the one common, wlriclristhe Thc womb in moll fruit is {rated in the middle of the Procefs, but in Slumber" tics it isplaculin the am- bient parts. this feleét and wholfom fruit, made up Of many Seeds enwrapped within a fine thin Tunicle. Grapes are enriched with the mof't generous juice of Plants, which being carried outof the Ptem by various flalks, accommodated with many Air and from the well concoéi'cd Liquor ( derived from the Sap-vefléls ) concreted into a more folid (Parembjma, than that of Plums and Cherries. The Sap and Air-vellels of Apples. ter which is a round Cortical l'roccfs, into which itis inferred. Iiiiiiii The |
