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Show TheAnatomy ’ 204 Book IV, eran ofthe Main Body; here it lies ina fmall round Cavity in the middle of the Back, The Stone, or Main Body, wherethis Part grows to it, is not fo hard, as more remote from it: and is therefore probably in fome part diffolved , by lying in the Ground, as in Re But for the moft part, the Main Body is divided, as hath been fiid, ieatio Lobes andthofe in Subftance Homogeneous to the other Part or Parts, plainly diftinguifhed in moft Kermels and other large Seeds 5 and not difficultly in manyleffer ones, as in that of Viola Lunaris, Scabions, Doves- Foot, &c. if flipped out of their Covers bey are full ripe. . ae ei Hibstedshapa! they are of acircular figure, and verylarge in Proportion to the Radicle. In Cuenmer, oblong , with fome vifible Branches of the Seminal Root 5 and the Radicle fomewhat bigger. But in Scorzonera, verylong, like the Leggs of a Pair of Compaffes: and thetwo firlt, or diffimular Leavs of the Plant into which they are converted, are of the fame Shape. Of thefe and many more, the Radicle is {hort and pointed; and lies in one ftraight Line with the DES. §. In Viola Lunaria, they are very large; and the Branches of the Seminal Root, fairly apparent, fo as to refemble a Pair of Leaus. The Radicle prettylong, equally thick from end toend, andcouched down uponthe two Lobes, each of them havinga little Shoulderfor it tolieupon. In Woad, where it hath the like Pofture and Shape, as alfo in Chamelina, Eruca, and sul) others, it is very Bulky, being bigger a h the Lobes put together. ve ie this PartI think it may be obferved, That commonly thofe Seeds, wherein it is very {mall with refpect to the Lobes, produce a Perennial Plant: And fo, vice verfa, where it is very large, an Aznual one. Inthe latter, the Serinal Virtue being more vigorous, and fo tending more haftily to the Bufinefs of Generation, followed with the Death of the Plant. ; 8.§. IN THE former Seeds, the Lobeslie flat one againft another. But in Garden-Radifh, they are folded up, fo as to receive the Radicle into their Bofome: as when a Chicken tucks his Head under his Wes In Holyoak, the Lobes are plated upwards, and re-plated downagain. Being moft agreeably compofed to the Shape of the Covers, as thofe are to their Poffwre onthe Plant. In Maple, they are plated one over another, andfo rouled up. 10. §. Inthe Cotton-Seed,which confifteth almoft wholly of two very broad and thin Lobes or Leaves, the Folds are yet more numerous; all curioufly reduced toan exact and folid Oval, 11. §. It happens now and then, that inftead of two, there are three Lobes, asin the Kernels of Plums, Apples, and other Fruits, and the {maller forts of Seeds, will {pring up fometimes with more than two diffimilar Leaves, originally the Lobes of the Seed. Thefe are e ferved by fome, more frequently to produce a double Flower, whic maybe, becaufe the féminal Virtue in fuch Seeds, is increafed by athird Part. 12. §.IN BookilV.Of.SeedsSS 12. §. IN many Seeds, the Radicle is of one and the fame Colour fromendto end. But in others, as in the Lupine, it is obfervable , That the upper and greater half, isWhite; the Lower tothe Point, hath a kind of Horny Glofi, and feems to be of a fomewhat different make. Lab. 75; Wherebyit comes to pafs, that after the Radicle is thot forth a little way, only this lower half defcends and become s the Root: The upper half is produced or raifed above ground, as a Pilar upon which the Lobes, or diffimilar Leaves are erected. 13. §. This Seed, on the out fide of each Lobe, and dicle, hath a very fmall and round Node, like a Navel; near the Ra whereof firft Book: the whole Seed looking not much unlike a Pj dge , in the ons Heads Ch, 7: the Radicle refembling the Bi//, and the Nave! the Bye. 14. §. IN the Seed of Garden-Orach, both the Radicle and Lobes Tab. 7 §, are very long and flender, and lie almoft in a compleat Circle round about the Vitellum before deferib’d. The Lobes of Rhapontick are fhaped like the Bift of a Spades and the Radicle ftands erected above Ch. 3. themlike the Handle, 15.§. OF SEEDS alfo with the Bulky Cover, there are many not divided into Lobes; being in amanner, all one Piece 5 as all of the Bulbows-Kind. n fome of which, though the inmoft Cover be thin 5 yet compared either with the other Covers, or with the Seed it felf) ic may very well be accounted of the Bulhy- Kind, 16. §. In Flag, it is above twenty times bigger than the init. Confifting of Bladders all Radiated towards the Seat Seed withofthe Seed, TheSeed it felf is thaped fomewhatlike a Penkwife. The lower Part Tab. 76: which becoms the Bulb, as the Haft, is thick, and Cylindrick Figure, and the end, round. The upper Partcometh near toa which becomes the firftyears Leaf, as the Blade, is rather flat, double edged, and pointed, andthe Point little bent. The Fibers and Bladders of which it confilts, are all difpofed into Parallel Lines running by the length. In Lil, where this Cover isthinner and more Tranfparent, without bes ing cut, but only held up againft the Light, the Seed may be feen within it. 17.§. BUT THE greater number of Seeds alfo with the Bulky Cover, are divided into two Lobes; which, for themoft part, refemble a pair of little Leavs. Inthe Purging Nut of Angola, the Shell being teken off, the upper Covers (dry’dand fhrunk up _) feem to bebut one. Tab, 76, In thefe, the Spermatick Vefels are Branched. Under thefe, lies the Thick and Inmoft Cover ; which being cut down the middle, exhibits the true Seed : Confifting ofa couple offair Leavs, Veined, and as whiteas Milk , joyned together with the Radicle at their Bafe; and let into a Hollow, made in the Cover, ofan anfwerable fhape. The like is obfervable in the Barbado-Nut, Ricinus Americ anus, and fome other Indian Fruits ; wirh fomelittle difference in the Shape of the Root and Leavs. 18 g. IN the foregoing Frets, the Bulky Cover is very foft: But inthe Nux Vomica Officinarum, “tis near as hard as a Dai e lone: In this, befides the hollow made for the recept ion of the Seed, or the two Leavs and Root 3’ the Sides are feparated or diftiné almoft to the Edge of the Cover round about, efpecially toward s the Root : So that it may not unaptly be comparedto little Pouch with the Sides clapt together; RS. $y Eni Tab, 96: |