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Show The Anatomy BookIV. Oseee fj j Nuts above mentioned,the Seeds are all very - 8 or oeoe they are extream fmall, fo as to be Ee ifible without Gla/i5Cover, asin Staphifagria, Peony, &e. In Stahardly vili he Thick or aInmoft is commonlya Spherical Triangle, phifagrie, : ards the Bafe. At the poynt of which, thereis alittle Cavia ‘hich the Seed, about as big as a {mall pins head, is lodged. The Ee veer isa little poynted, and the two Lobes rounded at the i the fame Coveris Soft, White, and ofan Oval Fisae a a. Ufually thought to be the Seed it {ie B t ta two hundredtimes biger than the true Seed, whichis . It liesRoot, in a little Cavzty near the bottom of the Covers a =ft invifible. hick and blunt and two poyated Lobes or Leas. Ae. ee “IN the Coffee-Berry, the Seed lies inthe Inner or CartilaginC = (formerly defcribed }) where one would not expect to find noes sie the Top or Surface of the Back, The Lobes of the Seed are Se two very minute Leaves, and joyned toa long Root like a Stalk The end ofwhich comesjuft to the bottom ofthe Cover, ready pice es the Inner Coveris alfo Cartilaginous or aoe Pe Seed is poltured in mucha like manner, and looks juft like a aus of poynted Leavs with a very long Stalk, beat THE Seed of Stramonium, is alfo inclofed ina Bu hy Co“a Which being foaked in warm water, and very warily cut about thoes es, with a Rafor,the Seed may be taken out ofit entire. Shaped like ae of Orach, but mueh longer. For the Reception whereof, s Cover is formed with a hollow, which runs round about it near the Edge; where in the Seed lies like a little winding Sake, Book: IV. Of Seeds, 309 {mall as great, and a3 well of Herbs as Trees, itis very apparent. But oftentimes lyeth fo deep between the Lobes as to be almoft undifcernable, asin Asaple, 4. §. The Leaves of the Bud, in differe nt Plants, are of a different Numbers, in fome, Twos in others, Four, Six, and fometimes more; Inthe Bay-Berry, they are only two; very , and finely veined. Inthe seed of Carduns fmall, but thick or fat, benedittas, they are al Tab, 78. Two3 almoft invifible; broad at the Bottom , poynte d at the Top, thick orfat, yet plated inward, and poftureda the other; for the two next to rife up betwe little diftant one froni n them, The like may be feen in Carthamum ; and fo, I fuppof e, in all the Carduns Kind. 5. §. Infom e Herbs, although the Bud con(ifteth but of two perfect Leaves, yet they are very con{picuous. Notonlyin larger Seeds, Tab. 78 as inthe Phafeolus or French Beans in the Seed of Hemp. but in thofe which are fmall, as 1n this, the two Leaves are both plated, and 6. §. Inthe 7. §. Inthe Bud of an Almond, we may 8.§ THE LOBES of the Seed, and Seed of Sena, the Bud confifteth of Four Leaves; of which, the greater pair is the Outer, and guards thelef. Shaped not Tab. 78, much unlike thofe in the Seed of Cardim s 5 but are a little more vifible. eafily count fix, or eight Leaves,and fometimes mores the Inermoft being laid bare by a dexterous 14h. 78. Separation ofthe Outer. Thefe are by much thegr ward, and fo laped one over another; where eateft, doubled In the reft, as a Hew {preads her Wings over her by they embofome all Chickens. The like is obfervable in many other large Kernels, as alfo fome other Plants, With refpeé to which, in the Garden Bean, and I have taken leave (4 )to (a) B. i: call this Part the Plume. and Bud confilt of a Skin, Parenchyma, and © likewife the Radicle Branched Vefels = all which CHARS YVOf the BUDS of Seeds. And of the P ARTS, of “which thefe, the Radicle, and Lobes are compounded. gop, ROM between the two Lobes, rifes i up the Stalk o f SI, the Plant. The original whereof» either to the ? naked Eye, or by a good Glajs,is always vifible in Seed, a o In many Plants, Naturefeesfit only to lay the foundation hereofin a fmall round Node; where upon the Leavs, in the Vegetation of the Seed, are in Viola Lunaria, and others. _ 3. §. But inthe greater number of Seeds, is formed a true Bud, confifting of perfect Leavs; different from thofe, which grow ies the Stalk, only in Bignefs; andfo far in Shape, as the fame Parts o Animal Feins, inits feveral ages in the Womb. In many Seeds, i °/** fo fet Edge to Edge, with mutual Urdulations. to be extended beyond athird part of the Lobes. OF that Length, as Ch. 1. I have formerly defcribed. (6) I fhall now add the following Re: marques. Cb) Bi: 9. §. Andfirlt of the skin, which in fome Seeds, asthe French- Ch. 1. Bean may eafily be feparated from the Purenc hyma: efpecially if the Beax be foaked in water for fome days; for the Siz in any part of ones Body whereit then it will flip off, like is bliftered. ’Tis woven into Bladders, as the Parenchyma; but into fmaller ones, and upon the Teh. 79s Lobes of a Garden Bean, all radiat ed towards the Center, With °/7 thefe Bladders, there are alfo mixed a fort of Lignous Fibres, incomparably fall, which give a Toughnefito the Skin, and by which the Bladders are dire&ted into Rays. To. §. The Bladders of the Parenchyma, as than thofe of the Shin, efpecially in the Lobes. is aid, are much larger In thofe ofa Garden . , Bean, fomewhat oval, about ; of an Inch Diamet and direéted towards the Branches of the Semina re by their Bredth, Lab. 79: l Root. “In the Radicle, they are twenty times {maller, than in the Lobes: and fo in the Plime. 11. §. Throughout the Parenchyma ran the Branch ed Veffels; which Tab. 79. in the Lobes make the Seminal Root 5 in the Radécle and Plume,he Wood : . of the Root and Stalk: Inall of formerly thewed. them, diftributed as hath been (c)() B. ts Ch. ts Ea, $3 |