The Anatomy Book I. 
refembling the Fibers of the Ears of the Heart 5 fome juft Quinquenerval, 
asin Avifum, and many more, the Lignous Body being in five main Fi- 
bers branched therein. The Figures, and Safe, of Thefe, and other 
Seeds, See in the Tables belonging to the Fourth art ofthe Fourth 
Book. 
5. $. The covers of not only Quince-Seeds, and thofe of Pflinm 
(more ufually taken notice of ) but thofe alfo of Horminum, Naflurtium, 
Eruca, Camelina, Ocymum, and divers others, have a Mucilage. Which, 
though it be not vifible when the Seeds are throughly dry 5 yet lying 
a while in fome warm Liquor, or only on the Tongue, it {wells more 
or lef, and upon them all fairly fhews it felf, On that of Ozyymm it 
appears grayifh; on the other, tranfparent 3 and on that of Naftur- 
tinm Hortenfe very large; even emulous of the inner Pulp furround- 
ing a Goofeberry-Seed. The putting of Clary-/éed into the Eye, may 
have been brought into ufe from this Mucilage, by which alone it 
may become Medicinal. And thus far of the Superficies, 
6. $. The mature of the outer Coat is alfo various, Membranows, 
Cartilaginous and Stony 5 the like Precipitations being fometimes made 
herein, as in a Stone or Shell; as in that of the Seeds of Carthamum, 
Lithofpermum and others. The Defignment hereof, being either with 
refpett to the Seed inits ftate of Generation; as where the Cafe is 
either wanting, or at leaft infufficient of it felf, there for its due 
protection and warmth. Or, in its ftate of Vegetation, for the better 
Fermenting of its Tindures and Sap 5 the Fermentations of fome Seeds 
not well proceeding, unlefs they lie in their Story Casks in the Ground, 
like Bottled Liquors in Sand. 
7- $. All seeds have their outer Covers open; either by a particu- 
lar Foramen, as in Beans, and other Pulfe, as is faids or by the break- 
ing off of the Seed from its Peduncle or Stool, as in thofe in Cucumber, 
Gichory ; or by the entering and paflage of a Branch or Branches, not 
only into the Concave thereof near the Cone, but alfo through the 
Cone it felf 5 as in Shells and Stones. 
8. $. Forthe fake of this aperture it is, that Akerns, Nuts, Beans, 
Cucumbers, and molt other Seeds, are in their formation fo placed, that 
the Radicle (till ftandeth next to it ; That So, upon Vegetation, it may 
have a free and ready paflage into the Mould. 
9. $. The Original of the outer Coat, though from Parts of the 
fame fübftantial nature, yet is differently made. Ina Plum, the Seed- 
Branch which runns, as is deferibed, through the Stoze, is not naked, 
but, asis faid, invefted with a thin Parenchyma, which it carries from 
the Stalk along with it; and which, by the Ramification of the faid 
Branch within the Stone, is, in part, dilated into a Coat, That ofa 
Bean is from the Parenchyma of the Cod; the fuperficial part of which 
Parenchyma, upon the large peduncle of the Bean becoming a thin Cn- 
ticle, and upon the Bean it {elf a Cartilaginons Coat 
10, $. The Original of the inner Coat of the Bean is likewife from 
the inner part of the fiid Parenchymas which firl is fpred into a long 
Cake, or that which with the Seed-Branch maketh the Penduncle of the 
Bean 5 under which Cake, there is ufually a black part or {pots by the 
length of which, the inner part of the Cake is next inferted into the 
outer Coat, and fpred all over the Concave thereof, and fo becomes 
the inner. 
11. $. 
