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Show E The Anatomy Book IV: Book IV. +of Seeds. 2i% tinued, not only through the Pulp, but alfo through the Stoneit lf, into the hollowof the fame, where it meets, and is united with the there appears in it a {tall Ducfws or Chanel; which runs ftom the bot- Lining thereof. no wider than to receive the Hair of a Mans Head 3 not vilible, except in aflice hereof cut tran{verfly, and viewed in a Glafs. Being ning Whereby, asit further helps to the drying and hard- of the Stoves {o alfo renders it cleavable in that part, where it runs through it. And therefore, whereas towards the Stalk, it goes no farther than to the Seed- Branch, andfo but half way throughthe Stove: towards the Top of the Fruit, where the Radicle ftands, and where the Stoxe begins to cleave, it runs quite throughit. 7. §. Nature having thus provided a convenient Uterus, She next taketh care about the Membranes ofthe Fetus. Thefe are Three apparently diftinét, and in manyrefpettsdifferent one fromanother. 8. §. The outer Atemsbrane is derived from the Parenchywa which furrounds the Seed-Branch 3 which, upon its entry into the hollow of the Stove, isexpanded, asit were, into two Bladders, one within another; whereof, one becomes the Lining of the Stones the other, this outer Membrane : as is beft een by cuting a young Aprecock, when it 1s about half'an Inch long, down through the midle,orfrom the Seat of the Flower tothe Stalk, between the two Lips. 9. § This outer Membrane, at this age, hatha good full and frim Body, about ,th of an Inch thick, or throughan ordinary Gla/, half an Inch, where it is thickeft, as at the Sides and the greater end: the Poyut being thinner, for the more eafy eruption of the Radicle into the Earth. Compofed of Bldders, through an ordinary Gla/s, about as big, as a Colewort-Seed. Io. §. Throughout this Membrane, the Vefels conteined in the Seed-Branchare diftributed. Beginning a little below the {maller end of the Coat or Membrane, they thence fetch their circuit both ways round about, juft beneath the Surface of the Membrane, and at laft, meet in the midle of the greater end, where theyare all inofculated, fo as to make a kind of umbilical Node. From whence theyftrike deeper into it, and at laft,into the midle Membrane, in which theyprefently become invifible. Membrane. Bythefe Vefels, the Sap is brought and {pewedintothe midle So that the outer Membrane feemeth, in fome refpedts, to be anfwerable to the Placenta in Auimals, 1. §, The midle Membrane, is derived fromthe bottome of the Outer. From whenceefpecially, but alfo round about, the Bladders hereof (ali angular) aremore and more amplified towards the Centres moft of them being at leaft two hundred times biger, than thofe ofthe Outer Membrane: whereby it looks, through a Gia/z, not a Coome full of Honys or in regard oftheir great tranfparency,unlike like a companyof little Cry/fal Pans tull ofa pure Lyapha. 12. §. This Midle Membrane, is properly {0 called, fromthe ftate ondition it hath, upon the Augmentation ofthe Seed, at which it obteins the nature of an Lnvolucr um. But originally, it is y whereentire, without any Hollow, filling up the Cavity of the uter Membrane, like a foft and delicate Pulp. After a fkort time, there tom to the top, like an Axis, through the midle of it. At firft, Tab, &1, growna little wider, it maybe feen, if the Membrane be dexteroufly cut by the length. At which time, it is alfo dilated into two Oval Cavities, one at each end : which are astwo little Crfferzs, whereinto a molt pure Lywpha continually owzeth, and is therein referved for the nourifhment of the Seed 5 and through the Chanel which runs be- tween the Ciflerns is emptied out ofone Ciffern into another, according as the Seed or the Inmoft Membrane hath need of it ; 7. e. as the Wea- ther and other Circumftances do more orlef accelerate their Growth, and fo render the Lympha ufeful to them. 13. §. A few daysafter this, the Innermoft Membrane begins to appears growing, likea foft Node or Bud, out of the upper Ciftern 5 to the lower end of whichit is joyned by a fhort and tender Stalk ,from Tab. 81. wheneeit is produced into a Conick:oval Figure, anfwerable to that of the Gftern, 14. §. This Membrane, though foft and full of Sap, yet being compared with the midlemoft, isa clofe and compact Body, compofed of Blidders above 300 times fmaller than theyare in that. Whereby, as the Seed is fo well guarded, as not to be fupplyed with anypart of the Lympha, but the pureft: fo neither with any more of this, than will fuffice, without the danger of making an Iuzdation out offo great a Lake. 15. §. This Membrane, if it be pulled with a moft {teady hand,and very gently, upwards, it will draw a fmall tranfparent String after it to the bottom of the Midle Membrane: The faid String though for the greater part, Parenchymows, yet being ftrengthened with the ad- mixture of {ome Lignous Fibres; no otherwife vilible in either of thefe two Membranes. So that they feem, to be a fmall portion of thofe which are inofculated at the bottome of the Outer Membrane, and thence produced through the midlemoft, underneath the Chanel, till at laft they break forth into the upper Ciftern, where they form this Inner Membrane : a piece of clofe-wrought Work, fuitable to the in- comparable finenefs of all the stuff out of whichit is made. 16. §. The fame Membraneis originally entire, as the Midlemoft: but being grownto about the bignefs of a Carvi-Seed, becomes a little hollow near the Cove. And the Lignows Fibers abovefaid, fetching their Tab. 81. compa(s from the Ba/é, fhoot forth into the Cone 5 and fo make a very fmall Node therein, for the firlt Ejay towards the Generation of the Seed. The {aid Fibers being thus {punout,to the utmoft degree offinenefs for this purpofe. 17. §. This Node, being grownabout #h part as big as a Chee/eMite ; it begins next to be divided by alittle indenture at the Top. Tab. 23. Which growing bydegrees {till deeper, the Nodeis hereby at length diftinguifhed into two Lobes or thick Leavs, 18. §, |