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Show The Anatomy BookIV. BookIV. of Fruits. the Veféls and Tartareons Grains are difperfed 5 in CT OL N GE EF. sthe Skiz, confifteth ofa Twofold 5, Tartareous Kuots or Grains, The Sv is lined with a great numberof the {aid Tartareous Grains, through a Ghfs, ut the bignefs of {mall Shot: wherebyit looks e the SAof the Scate and fome other fe which grow tothe sz, there y acent to itall round about the J Inch ir sha MG"a Pearcut tranfverfly is apparent. Somewhat it, according to the efs of the my,orother foft 2 r, than in thofe 1 Fruit: < ether crofcope as in < more orlefs, as Fruit; as more in a whicharecalled S¢# toria. cially which are the -ording as they t As all Vin 4 and areous, becom { rreat of the Ye/fel. nd thofe efpe{weet, ac- juantity, upon the 2. §. The Outer Parenchyma, is of the fame Original, and , ral Stru€ture, asin an Apple. But the Bladders, anfwerable to the Shape ofthis Fruit, not altogether fo long, with refpect to their Bredth. Throughout this Parenchyma, are alfo difperfed many {mall Turtareous of them fomewhat round, as thofe next the shim, and but nothing near fo numerous. here, have alfo a different Pofition from that : there, theyare all fo ftr on Centre ebeara 535 like a Star, 1e Tartareous parts the Skiz, are more or Graiv, nearer "ite are difper> Aer-Vejyet one « 5 to Fifteen principal but commonly not ‘ibres, yet a lithroughout the r Five, t §. Next theC ferent from the Outer. large and long s the The ; of the forr link nich this, € Nei-a ther. The Efdé whereof is, that is fweet, this fw er; for which*“” reafon, I havetaken Jeave to name it, the Ac etary. 6. §. Betwixt thisand the outer Parenchyma, the taid Tartareous Grams begin, firft to ftand nearer together, to grow biger, and of a more unequal Surface ; and bydegrees, to unite intoa | i Pears, and efpecially towards the Cork , almoft as hard as z Plum-Stone; which I have thereupon, namedthe Calenlary. So that a Pear, is Na- B4, Gh.6. tures Preface or Introduction toa Plum. 7- §. This Tartareons Body, and thofe {mall Grains above faid, I have formerlyfuppofed, to be precipitated out of the Sap, by virtue of B.1.Ch. 6. the Veffels. Which is not only argued from their growing, where the Vefels, only in the outer Parenchyma : but in that the veryBounds or Figure of the Calculary, is determined by the Situation of the chief of 7,5, 67. thofe Vefels; asin cuting a Pear {moothly through the Centre and by the Length, is apparent, 8. §. The Coar as well asthe Acetary, feems to be derived from the Pith. Andis thereforeleffer here, than in an Apple, where the whole Pith of the stalk, goes to the making of the Coar only. 9. §. Inmoft Pears, at the bottom of the Coa#, and little below if the Centre of the Fruit, there is a kind of{mall Umbelical Kuot; from 14b. 67. whence is extendeda ftraight Chanel or Duéfws, which opens at the midle of the Cork or Stool of the Flower, fearce wide enough to admit the {malleft Piz. Madefor the Ue hereafter mentioned. to. § A QUINCE, is neatly allyed toa Pear. The differences betwixt them are thefe; In the Quince, the outer Parenchyma is more clofe, that is, the Bladdersare {maller. The Peffels more nu- 7 merous, and more deeply enarched 5 the Cah wlary greater, and more fpread 5 according to the Shape of the Fruit» but the Acetary, ef: The Coarftands higher ornearer to the Cork 5 divided, not into Five, but Four Celis. And the Dudfrom the bottom of the Coar to the top of the Fruit, much more open and obfervable. CUR VASsaid. Ofthe P LUM,andfomeother Fruits of the fame Kindred. PLUMconfifteth of a Parenchyma, the Two general Kinds ofVeffels, and a stone. All which I have already defcribed in the Firft Wook, ICA. 6. fhall here add, and further clear ‘fome things. And Firft, it isto be noted, That, in Proportion to the Bulk of the Fruit, there are more Vefels in a Plum, than in an Appk, Pear, or Quince. As alfo, That in Plums, all the Veféls are braced together into one Uniform Piece of Net-Work >» every where terminating at an equal diftance from the Circumference, fe. 1h of an Tab. 68 Inch or thereabout. Andasfor the Bore of the Aer-Vefféls, although the Glas Lufed, when I examinedthis Fr#t, would not reachit 3 yet gi |