Tab, 4. 15. 
Tab. 4. f15. 
The dating 
5. $. IN A PLUM (to which the Cherry, Apricot, Peach, Wal- 
mut, &c, ought to be referr'd) there are four diftin& Parts, the Pilling, 
the Parenchyma, Branchery and Stone. The Pilling and Parenchyme are, 
as to their Original, with thofè of an Apple or Pear, both alike. As 
likewife the Brunckerys but differently ramified. In Plums (I füp- 
pofe all) there are five main Ovt-Branches, which run along the Sūr- 
face of the Stone from the Bafís to the point thereof, four of them by 
one Ridge, and one by the other oppolite to it. In an Apricot there is 
the fame number, but the fingle Branch ransnot upon the Surface, but 
through the Body of the Stone, There are likewile two or three 
fmaller Branches, which run in like manner under the other Ridge for 
fome fpace, and then advancing into the Parexchyma, therein difperfe 
themfelves : Thefe latter fort in Peaches are numerous throughout. 
6. $. But notwithftanding the different difpofition of the Branches 
ofthe Fruits aforefaid ; yet is there one Branch difposd in one and 
the fame manner in them all. The entrance hereof into the Stone is at 
its Bafís3 from whence running through its Body, and fill inclining 
or arching it felf towards its Concave, is at laft, about its Cone, there- 
into emergeht, where the Coats of the Seed areappendent to it. OF 
the Secd-Branch ’tis therefore obfervable that after its entrance iñ- 
to the Fruit, “tis always prolonged therein to a confiderable length; 
as is feen not only in Apples, &c. ` where the Seed {tands a good diftance 
from the Stalk 5 but in Plums likewife, where it ftands very near it 3 
in that here the Seed-Branch, as is faid, never ftrikes through the Storo 
into the Coats of the Seed direétly, but runs through a Chanel cut in 
the Stone, till it iffues, near the Core, into the Concave thereof. 
7- $. The Stone though it feem a fimple Body, yet it is compoun- 
ded of different ones. The Inner Part thereof, as it is by far the thin- 
neft, fo is it the moft denfe, white, fmoothand fimple. “The Original 
is from the Pith; difficult, but curious to obferve: For the Seed- 
Branch, not ftriking direétly and immediately quite through the 
Bafis of the Stone, but in the manner as is above deferibed, carries a 
confiderable Part of the Pith, now gatherd round about it, as its Pa- 
renchyma, along with it felf; which upon its entrance into the concave 
of the Stone about its farther end, is there in part fpread all over it, as 
the Lining thereof. The outer and very much thicker Part, confift- 
eth partly of the like Precipitations or concrete Particles, asin a Pears 
being gathered here much more clofely, not only to a Contiguity, but 
a Coalition into one entire Stone 5 as we fee in Pears themfelves, efpeci- 
ally towards the Cork , they gather into the like Stonineß; or as a 
Stone, Mineral, or Animal, is oftentimes the product of accumulated 
Gravel. But as the Parenchyma is mixed with the Concretions in the 
Caleulary, fois it alfo, though not vifibly, with thefe in the stone, 
the ground of the stone being indeed a perfe& Parenchyma 3 but by 
the faid Coveretions fo far alterd, as to become dry, hard and un- 
diftinguithable from them. All which Particulars, are obfervable 
only in the feveral degrees of Growth in the young Fruit. And are 
reprefented in Tab. 4. But efpecially by the-feveral Figures belonging 
to the Third and Fourth Parts of the Fourth Book. 
