Book IV. of Fruits. 
CH AP. VIL 
Ofthe U S E of the Parts to the Seed. Andthe TIME, in 
which the Uterus or Fruit and Secd-Cafe are formed. 
% ND firft, for example, in an Apple, the Five In- 
moft Branches, do belt ferve for the Generation of 
the seed; thefe running into the Attire of the 
Flower, and fo carrying off the molt Aerial Spirit 
from the Seed; by which means, it becomes a more 
compact and denfer Body, than the Fruit, and fo 
522 more accommodate to the procefs of Vegetation 5 as P, 2, Chg: 
hath formerly been fhewed. § 5. 
2. $. The Elongation likewife of the Seed-Veféls, inthe Fruit and 
Cafe, fometimes dire@ly, as in Plums and Nuts, and fometimes by fe. 
veral Ambages before they fhoot into the Seeds, as in Tulip 5 thewes a 
defign for the higheft refining and maturation of the seminal Sap. 
3. $. Chiefly by means of the Inmoft Veffels, is made that Chanel 
in fome Pears, and efpecially in Quinces. For thefe perifhing with 
the Flower, the circumjacent Parenchyma (hrinks up, leaving the faid 
4) bs Chanel in the midh. Defigned for an inlet to the 4er, for the better 
mer, drying of the seeds ; which here ftand the more in need of; it, becaufe 
4 P w encompafled with a Mucilage. 
4°§. For the better drying of the seed, and the disburfing or 
fowing of it in due time, the opening of the Cafe is, in the lame man- 
ner, alfo contrived: either at the Top, as in Popy; or on the Sides, as 
in Tulip, Pimpernel; or at the Bottom, asin Codded Arfmart. All which 
openings are effected by the running of the Aer-Vefféls along thofe pla- 
ces: for by drying the Parenchyma next adjacent,they caufe it to chop 
and cleave afunder. 
5- $. Of the seed-Cafe of Poppy, it is particularly to be noted, 
That as the feveral Windows, ferve to let in aer, for the drying of the 
Seeds, after their fall Growth: “So the Canopy over them, ferves to 
keep out Ruiz. For here, the Café not cleaving down the Side, as it 
ufually doth ; fhould the Rain getin, it would fand in it, asin a Pot, 
‚ont and fo rot the Seeds. And asthe Canopy ferves to preferve the Seeds 5 
setot LO the feveral Partitions or Walls, for their better Stowage. For by an 
eafie fürvey of this little piece of Ground, itis plain, that as they 
ftand on both Sides every Wall, there is as much more Ground for them 
to ftand upon, as if there were no parting Walls, but the Seeds ftuck 
all round about upon the Amzbit or Sides of the Cafe 5 or upon a great 
Bed or Placenta within it, asin Hyofeyamus, Anagallis, &c. where there 
is a lef numerous Brood, 
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