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Pith within it; and the Seed-Branch likewife included, not meerly 
in the Body of the Shell, as ina Plum, but within the Pith it flf 
So neceflary is this defign , that what the Hen by Incubation or 
Hovering, is to the Egg or Chick 5 that the whole Fruit, by compre» 
henfion , is to the Seed, 
CHAP. VIL 
Of the SEED, in its State of Generation, 
KS the Original, fo the Ultimate end and Perfe&tion 
of Vegetation is the Seed. How it is the former, and 
in its ftate apt for Vegetation,hath already been fen. 
How the latter, and in its ftate of Generation, we 
A fhall now laftly enquire. In doing which, what in 
& the other ftate, was either not diftingly exiftent,or 
NS not fo apparent, or not fo intelligible, will occur. 
2. $. The two general Parts of the Seed are its 
Covers and Body. The Covers in this eftate are ufually Four, The out- 
moft, we may call the Cafè. "Tis of a very various form ; fometimes a 
Pouch, as in Nafturtinmr, Cochlearia; aCod, as in all Pulfe, Galega ; 
fometimes not éntire, but parted, or otherwife Open, as in Sorrel, 
Kaoigrafi, with many other forms: I think alwaies more heteroge- 
neous to that of the Seed, by which it differs from the proper Coats. 
to To this the Caps of Nuts, and the Parenchyma's of other Fruits are 
ater analogous. E £ 
3 3. $. The two next are properly the Coats. Ina Bean efpecially, 
fice and the like; from whence, to avoyd Confufion, the denomination 
ait may run common to the refponding covers of other Seeds. The Co- 
A lour of the outer, is of all degrees,from White to the Blackneß of ‘Fett. 
r Its Figure fometimes Kidney’d, as in Alcea, Behen, Poppy 3 Triangu- 
a lar, asin Polygonatum, Sorrel 3 Spherically triangular, in Mertha, Me- 
life; Circular, in Leucoina», Amaranthus 3 Globular, in Napus, Afpe- 
E rula ; Oval, in Speculum Veneris, Tatkymalıs y, half Globe, in Coriander ; 
that which we take for one fingle round Seed, being a Conjugation 
of two half Oval, in Anife, Fennel ; Haftal, in Lattuca, Cylindri- 
cal, as, if I miftake not, in Jacobea 5 Pyramidal, in Geranium Althee 
fol. with many other differences. But the Perfection of one or two 
of the (aid Figures lieth in the Cafe. So that, as all Lives and Proporti- 
ons are in the Leafand Flower 3 fo all Regular solids in the Seeds or 
rather in its Covers, 
_ 4 $ “Tis fometimes glittering, as in Speculum Veneris ; Rough-calt, 
in Catanance 5 Studded, in Beken, Balttaria 3 Favous, in Papaver, An- 
tirrhinum, Lepidum annuum, Alea Veficaria, Hyofeyamus, and many 
more,before the Seeds have lain long by 3 Pounccd, in Phalenginm Crete, 
Lithofpermum 5, Ramified,, in Pentaphyllum fra: j 
refembling 
