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Show F Tbe Anatomy Bool!KY. , but even annals Book IV. $$ of Seeds. wholfome feeding of Cattle. aay. A Rub, though it feems an imperfect Plant, yet befides its Flower, hath alfo a plentiful brood of Seeds of a Conick Figure. 12. §. Some Seeds are Cylindrick, as that of St. Fobns-wort, ag alfo of Tyt/az, and fome otherlike Plants, with fomelittle diverfity in Typ the Shape or Surface of the Seed. That of Vervain, is ina manner, 734 half a Cylinder: the true Seed lying in the Covers, likea Child, ina Dt ‘0G coms,0¥ as it were Hemi{pherick. Of which nd h approaching, there are a greater number than other; as that which agrees with the more frequent Shape and d of the Lobes and Radicle of the Seed, as thall be feen. Yet with fome difference, as to their Shape and Surface. So, that of Lychuis sylvefiris is figur'd juftlike the kidney ofa Cat; and hath a knobedsure. ‘That of Poppey comes near it in Shapes but hath a surface exactly like that part of the Pauach of a Sheep, called the Hony-Coome. That of great Celandine, is a little more oblong; andfo, like the Kidney, not of but of a Sheep: chequered withparallel Rings andother fhort Zi laced alternately betwixt them. 6. §$. here, by the way, we mayfee, ell by the Seed, asby the other Parts, of how different kinds, t! t and Little Celazline, notwithftandig their Names, are to be efteemed. 3. The Seed alfo of Ben or JSpatling Poppeyis fomewhat like a y: but hath its Circumference raifed up intoa double Ridg: to veral fmall Ridges do in fome fort alfo radiate frome one Centre afe of the Seed. §. The Sved of Chickweed, is partly like a Kiduey, and partly likea little Retort. Asalfothat of Pentaphil. fragiferum. But the former is rough caft with fmall pieces having as it were feet on eachfide, like little Infits, With which, the Seed of Leuchanthemum ( which maybe called, the Giant-Chickweed) doth much agree. The latter, hath feveral Fibrous Ridges, refembling the Fibres in the Auricles of the Heart; or runing from the nofe to: the Circumference, fomewhat like the Azywuth Lines on a Quadrant. g. §. Some are Oval; as that of thelittle Bell, and rough aft with Fibres almoft parallel and produced by the Length of the Seed. In whichlatterrefpeét, the Seeds alfo.of Iracheliumand fome otherlike Plants, areagreeable. That of Brooklime,is alfo Oval, but encompafled with a thick Rime, narrowing all the way to the Bafé of the Seed. 10. §. Fhe Seed of Dovesfoot hath an oval Cone, and a flat Bafe. Its Surface favous, like that of Poppy, Toad-flax, and fome other Seeds. That of Sedum minus aftioum lutenm, is in a manner the Figure of the formerinverted, being flat, not at the Ba/é, but on the Top. “And whereas that rifes with a blunt Avgle, this hath only a Ridg, raifed above the Surface of the Seed. > 11. §. The Seeds ofdivers forts of Grafs, are more Conich, as pate ticularly of that, whichfor the likenefs its Seed hath toa Barly Cont, may be called Barley-Gra/s. And ¥ little doubt, but that among, the Cradle without.an head. 13. §. Others are rather Conico-Cylindrick, as that of jacobeas.., _ I having a Coronet on the top, andfeveral furrows by the Length round *7” 724 about. Anfwerable to which, is that of Exygerum 5 in Shape not unlike toa Rowling-pin, if Plani-Conick, as that of Nettle, whichis fhaped fomewhatlike the end ofa Speer. That of Eye-bright is more Eliptick3 with feveral Ridges running by the Length ; and joyned together with fhort pieces trarfverfly, as in the looping of Lace, That of Worm- Tab. 743 mood not very unlike little flat Eyfece-Glafs: in which, the Fibres are produced bythe Length, as the Ridges are in Ege-bright. And fo in Yarrow, which is alfo encompafled with a Membrancous Rimm. That of Dandelyon, is Plani-Cowich towards the Bufé. And fo thofe of Let tice,Souchus,and fame others. To which, thofe alfo of Hieracenm, Tra- Sopogon , Scorzonera, &c. with refpect to their Surface, do all allude. 15. §. And fomeare Conico-Triavgular, Of which, that ofSorrel is Conick at both ends’ the fides equal 5; and hath a narrowand fharp Rim. upon every Angle, As alfo that of Axagallis; but the Sides are Spheri-cowick, and fo the ends are blunt. Theyare alfo Tab. 746 pounced with many little round Cavities. But have no Rim upon the Azgles. 16. §. The Seed of Nigella is Triangular, and Conick only at the Top. Onevery Angle, hath a narrow Rimam 3 the three Sides equal, and Spheri-conick 5 {urrounded with {even or eight Ridges by the girth, joyned together in {ome places with others tranfverfly. That of Ar- 1474: faert, is allo Triangular and Conich, at the Top. But one of the sides 1s almoft equal tothe other two3 which ftand low. That of Kyot- Grafs hath three Sides, one lefs than another 3 being as 5, 3, and 2, or thereabout. 17. §. The next (which! take tobe the Seed of a fort of Bu- Slofs) is very oddly figured. The Bafe, ovals the Lop, conick; the Back, fwelling and round as an Egg; the Belly alfo fwelling, but rifing Tab. 743 up into an obtufe Azgle higheft im the midle, fomewhatlike a Breaft. piece of Armour: and is encompaffed with a Rinm floaped upward. 18; $: Phat of Moldavian Bawm, is Triangular, and Conick only at the Bafe. The place whereit is faftned, {haped like the Beard of a Dart. Twoof the Sides are Plani-conick., the Third Sphericonick , Tab, 74) and’near as big as both the other two. The Head flat, with a Ri erected upon'each Side, fo asto makea Spherical Triangle. Approah- feveral forts of Grafs, there are fome which an{wer toall the kinds of ing tothis, are thofe of sage, Horehound, Clary, &e. Andaccordingly,that they may be more profitably fown in one Ground, ning to the Bafé. Whichis not perfedly conick, but a Jittle dilated into two obtuie Aygles, The Head Triangular, with one Side convex; Efeulent Grains, as Out-Grafe, Rice-Grafs, Wheat-Grafy Rye-Grafr than in another 3 and ufed with diftinction, for the higher, or more wholfome 9, §. That alfo of Bellis Tanaceti folio, hath two sides Planico- wick, anda third’ Sphericonick, The two firlt have feveral Ridges ranTab. 745 the |