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Show ee aa Book I. BookTI; y The Anatom erences pure of a Goofeberry, Cc > A, See inthe Figures belonging to the Third is part re Sn eans are for May, (fometimes alfo other Sah as are Akerns and Hams) and for the Seed. For Maz,they are fo varioufly defirable, that till our Orchards we aeore Confetfioners-Stoves and Apothecaries-Shops, our Ladies lofets, their ofPlants. Pith within it; and the seed-Branch Ij kewife included, not meerl in the Body of the Shell, as ina Plum » but within the Pith it So neceffary is this defign , that what the Hen by Incubationl£ or Hovering, is to the Egg or Ch ick 5 that the whole Fruit, by compre- henfion , is to the Seed, Tables or Hands are empty of them, I fhall not need to enquire for what. If it be asked, how the Fruit becomes, generally above all the other Parts, fo pleafanta Meat? It ispartly from the Sap, the groffer portion thereof being depofited in the Leaves, and {o the ne hereunto referved. Partly from the nt of se Fruit. CHAP. VIL. For the sap being thus ina greater quantity aa ang iv all Parts equallydiffus'd, the Concotfion hereof, as in a Veffel, ae greate{t advantage favoured and promoted. Wherefore all Fruits, Of the SEED, inits State of Generation. which we eat raw, how fmall foever, are ofa Globular Form, or thereunto approaching; and the nearer, the delicater; among{t Apples, the Pipin 3 amongft Pears, the Burgundian ; and amongft all ‘Fruits, the Grape; and amongft Grapes, the roundeft, are ofall, the ainty. aes The vifible caufe of this Globular Figure, is the Flower ; or the Inofculation ofall the main Branches at the Stool of the Flower5 and upon the fall of the Flower, the obtufenefs, and with Wind and Sun, asit were the feaing of their feveral ends : For thus: the Sap entering the Fruit, being not able to effect, either a Difunion, or a Jfoooting forth of the faid Branches, and fo to carryon their Growth in length; they muft of neceflity be enarch’d, and with the Parenchyma more and more expand themfelves ; Whereas were they difpofed and qualified otherwife, thanas is faid inftead of forming a Fruit within bounds, they would run outinto all extravagance, and even into another little Treeor Leafy Growth. 12. §. ‘Tothe Seed, the Fruit is ferviceable; Firft, in order to its being fupply'd with a due and moft convenient Sap, the greater part thereof, and that whichis lefs elaborated, being, in its paflage to- wardsthe Seed, thereinto received ; the Fruit doing the fame office to the Seed, which the Leaves dotothe Fruit; the Sap in the Fruit being, in a laxe comparifon, asthe Wine ; and that for the seed, a {mall part of the higheft Spirit rectified from it. 12. §. So likewife for its Prote@ion, in order to the profperous carrying on and perfe@ing of its generation, and fecurity being perfected, Which proteétion it gives not only tothe Seminal sap and Seed it felf, but ever alfo to its Seed-8ranch. Thus we fee an Apple, befides that it is it felf of ample compas, for the fake of its Seed, hath likewife its Coar; as if it were not fufficient, that the Walls of their Roomare fo very thick, unlefe alfo waznfcoated. In a Pear again, wherethe Purexchyma is oflefs compafs than that of an Apple, to what protection this affords, that of the Calc#lary is f{uper-added. But in a Plum, where the Parenchyma is exceeding tender, andina Peach, which hangs late, and till Autumn Frofts approach, we have not only the Rubbith ofa Calculary, but ftout Stone-Walls. Within which alfo, not only the Seed it felf, but the Seed-Branch is evermore immur’d. Laftly, in a Nut, where the Shel being not furrounded with a Parenchywa, that protection is wanting without, ’tis anfwer'd by an mee uw) @S the Original, fo the Ultimate end and Perfetion |) of Vegetation is the Seed. Howit is the former, and in its {tate apt for Vegetation,hath already beenfen. Howthe Jatter, and in its ftate of Generation, we fhall nowlaftly enquire. In doing which, what in the otherftate, was either notdiftin@ly exiftent,or not fo apparent, or notfo intelligible, will occur. 2. §. The two general Parts ofthe Seed areits Covers and Body. The Covers inthis eftate are ufually Four, The outmoft, we maycall the Cae. "Tis of a very various form ; fometimes a Pouch, as in Nafturtinm, Cochlearia ; a Cod, as in all Pulfe, Galega ; fometimes not entire, but parted, or otherwife open, as in Sorrel, Kuotgrafs; with many other forms: I think alwaies more heterogeneous to that of the seed, by which it differs from the proper Coats. To this the Caps of Nuts, and the Parenchyma's of other Fruits are analogous. 3- §. The two next are properly the Coats. Ina Bean efpecially, and the like ; from whence, to avoyd Confufion, the denomination may run commonto the refponding Covers of other Seeds. The Co- lour of the outer, is of all degrees,from White to the Blacknefés of Fett. Its Figure fometimes Kidney’d, asin Alcea, Behen, Poppy 5 Triangu- lar, asin Polygonatum, sorrel 5 Spherically triangular, in Mentha,Melif; Circular, in Lewcoium, Amaranthus s Globular, in Napus, Afperula, Oval, in SpeculumVeneris, Tithymalus 5 half Globe, in Coriander 5 that which we take for ove fingle round Seed, being a Conjugation of twos half Oval, in Anife, Fennel 5 Haftal, in Lailucas Cylindrical, as, if I miftake not, in Facobea ; Pyramidal, in Geranium Althee fol. with many other differences. But the Perfection of one or two of the faid Figures licth in the Café. So that, as all Lives and Proportions are in the Leaf'and Flower ; fo all Regular solids in the Seeds or rather in its Covers. 4. §. ‘Tis fometimes gliftering, as in Speculun Veneris Rough-caft, in Catanance 3 Studded, in Behew, Balttaria; Pavous, in Papaver, Antirrhinum, Lepidum annuum, Alcea Veficaria, Hyofeyamus , and many more,before the Seeds have lain long by ; Pounced, in PhalanginmCreta, Lithofpermum Ramified, in Pentaphyllun fragiferum Erettum majus, refemb] |