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Show The Anatomy the Radicle, is thus requifite5 the Beaz is o madeneceflary minal Root, being produced but Radicle. Nowthe Root, in either Lobe ; : frame of the Pao two main Branches of the Se- 1¢ s bef ed, nc the Plus Sp being brought as far as the Semin ing to the a atelyi luct thereof contin into the fame Part, einto the main Branches themfelves do; that i i to the Radicle. By which Szp, thus bringing the feveral Tinéures of the Parts aforefaid with it, bei g nowfed; it is no longer a meer alfo Seminal, and fo becomes aperfect Root. icle, but is : The Plume, all this w hile, lyes clofe and ftill. For the fake chieflyit is, that the Beaand other seeds arediv ided into ;» Thatit might be warmly and fafely lodged up between n, and fo fecur’d from the Injuries fo tender a Part would fuftain m the Mould; whereto, had the Atuin Body been entire, it mutt, upon the cleaving of the Coats, have lay'n contiguous. “3 . But the Radicle being thus ated and fhot into ; is nowtime for the Plume torouze tetoo: In order wher and fufficient Aliment, being well fhot into the Mould, copious Sup fromthence; the motion hereof and bydegrees proceed in acontrary fe, J 7a iQpne2ecr> and difplays it felf, 40. §. The courfe direct Line out of its loyfters, and tis nowfed from the Root, with as the Supplies and Motion’ of td the Plume: and, by rely condu@ted thereinto : i fo the Root : mutt need be ftronger fc. from the Root to- ‘ume I I fay, ina ~ but collaterally, into the anches which are obliquely icle into either Lobe. By which Branches the ) back into all the sexinal Root, and from into the Parenxchyma of the Lobes, they are both thus i ing themfelves, really grow: as i pines is evident. 41. §. Yet is no ground ; as Corn being ofa Jaxer and herein from moft other seed 3 and b oneentire thick Body. And fome, i lef Oleous Subft not divi oughthey are divided into Lobes, yet rife not = the great which, therefore, it is obfervable. That the two } in comparifon with that which runs intc mean 5 and fo infufficient to the feeding and vevetation the Lobes ; the Plume, on the contrary, grow ing fo lufty, as to mount up with out them, 4 : ; 42. §. Excepting a fewof thee TwoKinds, all other Seeds whatfoever, (which I have obf tved) i upon the Vegetation ofth e Plume, dot ve the Ground togetherwith it 5 [ i n centea of Plants. 43. §. The Impediments of our appre henfion hereof are the Colour, Size and Shape ofthe Diffimilar ‘they are nothing elfe but the Maiz Leaves. Notwithftanding, that Body of the Seed, how I came firft to conceive, and afterwards to know ferved in general, that the Dilfimilar Leave it, was thus, Firft, 1 obeven edg’d: Andfeeing the even verges ofs,thewere never jagg’d, but Lobes of the Seed hereto refpondent, I was apt to think, that thole which werefo like,might Prove the fame. Next defcending to particular Seeds, Tobferved, firft, of the Lupine 5 that, as to its Colou r, advancing above the Ground, (as it ufethtodo) it wasalways chang ed irito a perfect Green. And why mightnot the fame by parity of Reafo That, as toits fize, it grew but little bigge n beinferred ofother seeds 2 r than when firlt{et.Whence; asI difcern’d (the Augmentation being the two Lobes: So, (as fome augmentatibut little) we here had only 7,5, on there was) I inferr’d the like might be, and that, in fartherdegre es, in other Seedj. 44. §. Next of the Cucumber-seed, That, as toits Colour, often appearing above ground,in its 2. f. i, primitive white, fromwhite it turns to yellow,and from yellow to green ; the proper colour of a Leaf: That, as toits fize, thoughat its firft arife, the Lobes werelittle bigger than upon fetting ; yet afterwards, as they chang’d their Colour, {0 theirdi- Tab. fai menfions alfo, primitive fize. growing to a three-four-five-fold ampli tude above their But whereas the Lobes ofthe Seed, are in Proportion, narrow,fhort and thick : how then comethe Diffimilar Leaves, to be fo exceeding broad,or long, and thin? ~The Queftion anfivers it felf: For the Diffimilar Leaves, for that very reafonaref of from the Root int a nn Book I. asall s gup with es, for the moft Z of a different {hape fromthofe very Lobes of the Seed divided. xpanded,and thu o thin, becaufe fo very broad orlong; as wefe e many things, how much they are extende din length or breadth, fo much they lofe in depth, or grow more thins which is that which here befalls the noweffoliated Lobes , For being once difimprifcned from their Coats,and the courf é ofthe Sap into them, now more and moreencré afed; they nmuft needs ve ry confiderably amplifiethemflves: and from the manner wherein the Sem: zal Root is branched in them, that amplification cannot be in thicknefs, but in length or breadth. In both which, in fome Diffinilar 53 Leaves, ’tis very remarkable 5 efpecially in length, asin thofe of Let. 24 tice, Thorn-Apple, and others; whol e ; the Lobes ofthofe seeds growing up intoeeds, although very {mall, yet anInch, and fometimes more, in length. Difjimilar Leaves,are extended Thoughhethat thallattempt to geta clearfight of the Lobes of Thorn-Appl e,and fome others,by Difecion,will find it no eafie Task; yetisthat which maybe obtained sand in the Laft Book thall be fhew’d. From all which » and the obfervation of other Seeds, I at laft found, that the Diffimilar Leaves of a young Plant, are nothing elfe but the Seed. So that, a8 the Lobes did at firlk Lobes or Main Body of its feed and impregnate the Radicle into a perfet Root; fo the Root, being and bydegrees amplifie each Lobe into a perfeperfected, doth againfeed, ct Leaf. 45. §. The Original of the Difim ilar Leaves thus known, we underftand, why fome Plants have none3 becaufe the Seed cither rifeth not, as Garden- Beans, Corn, &c. Or uponrifing, the Lobes are little alter'd, as Lupines, Peafe, &c, Why, though the proper Leaves are often indented round; the Diffimilar Vike the Lobes are even-edg’d. Why, though the prope fmooth, r Leaves are often hairy, yet thefe are ever Why fonie have more Diffimilar Leaves than two, as Creffe S, ; which J |
