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Show Book I, y cleave fo clof of Plants. To. §. Some very few Seeds are divided, not into two Lobes, but into more $ asthat of Creffés into Six. And fome are not at all divi- Tab. i. fi 4s ded, but entire; as the Grains of Corn. Excepting which few,all other 5+ Seeds, even the fmalleft, are divided, like asthe Bea, into juft two Lobes. Whereof, though in moft Seeds, becaufe of their minutenefs, we cannot bydiffection be inform’d yet otherwife, we cafily may, as inthis Chapter fhall be en. 11. §. At the Bafis of the Bean, the two other Organical Parts {tand appendent 5 by mediation whereof,the two Lobes meet together. The greater of thefe two Parts ftands without and join Lobes, and upon divefting the Bear of its Coats, is immedia the two tely vifible, *Tis of a white colour, and more gloffie than the Main Body, efpeci- Tab. ally when the Beais young. ogy 2. Inthe Beav, and many other Seeds, ‘tis & 3---a fituated fomewhat abovethe thicker end, as you hold the Bea» in its In OakKernels, which we call 4corns, Apple-Kernels, Alvonds, and manyother Seeds, it ftands pro- Tab.t.f.6-~6 minentjuft from the end; the Bafis and the Evd being in thefe the fame, but in the Bear divers, i molt proper pofture for growth. 12. §, This Part is found not only in the Beaz, above mentioned; but inall others : being that, which and the Sveds upon the Ve- getation of the Seed, becomes the Root ofthe Plant 3 which therefore maybe called the Radicle by which, I mean the Materials, abating the Formality, ofa Root. In Corn, itis that Pert, which Mulfters supon its fhooting forth, call the Come. ’Tis not eafie to be obferved, fa~ ving in fome few Seeds, among{t which, that of the Beanis the moft fair and ample of all I have feen. But that offome other Seeds, is, in 4 3 proportion,grea & + full ter; as of Fexnere * ek, whichis bh, FaiSin as big as one of Zab.1.f.7--¢ its Lobes. 13. §. The lefler ofthe two faid Appendents lies occult between the two Lobes of the Bean, by feparation whereofonlyit isto be feen, "Tis enclos’d intwo{mall Cavities, form'd in the Lobes forits reception, Tab.t.f 3+-b Its colour comes near to that of the R tdicle ; and Bajts thereof, having a quite contrary production,it is founded upon the fc. towards the Cone ofthe Bean; as being that very Part, which, in procef%, becomes the Body or Trunk of the Plant. In Corn, it is that Part, which after the Radicle is {prouted forth, or conte, fhoots towards feparated p afunder. the {maller end of the Graiz; and by many Malifers, is called the Acrofpire, 14. §, This Part isnot, like the Radi /e, an entire Body, but divided, at its loofe end, into divers pieces, all veryclofely couched together, as Feathers ina Bunch; for whichreafon it maybe called the Plume. Theyare fo clofe, that only two at firft feen: but upona nice and curious orthree ofthe outmoft are feparation ofthefe, the more interiour ftill maybe difeovered. In the Bean, this may be done: but in very few other Seedss becaufe ofthe extreme finallne of the Plume. Nowas the Plume is that Part whichbecomes the Trunk ofthe Plant, fo thefe pieces are fo manytrue, and already formed, though not difplay’d Leaves, intended for thefaid Trunk , and foulded upin the fame plicature, wherein uponthe fprouting of the Bean, theyafterwards appear. Ina French Bean, and efpecially inthe larger white Kind, orin the great Indian Phajeolws, the two outmoft are very fair and elegant. In the great Garden-Bean two extraordinary {mall Plimes often, ifnot always, ftandone on either fide the great one nowdeftrib’d: From G2 which, |
