The Anatomy Book 1V. 
Tab. 72+ 
Tab, 72. 
7- $. The Seeds of Harts-tongue, and of all that Tribe, are Shung or 
Shot away. The doing of which is performed by the curious contri. ® 
vance of the Seed-C. in Codded Arfiart, and fome other like 
Plants. Only there, the Sprixg moves and curles up inwards but here 
it moves outward. I fhall deferibe it, as well as the Weather ( whic 
whenI obferved it was cloudy ) would permit. Every Seed-Cafe 
it appears through a good Glaf, ftands upon a Pedicle from + 
to an Inch or more in Length ; at the bottom about as thick again as a 
Horfe hair, and a little thicker at the Top, on which ftands the Cafe, of 
a Silver Colours about the bigne of a Cherry-ftone, ofa spherick Fi- 
gure, and girded about with a fturdy Tendon or Spring, of the 
Colour of Gold : the whole Machine looking not much unlike-a little 
Padlock, The Surface of the Spring refembles a fine Screw, or fome of 
the Aer-Veffels in the Wood of a Plant. So foon as by the Innate Aer of 
the Plant, or otherwife, this Spring is become (tark enough, it fudden- 
ly breaks the Cafe into two half, like two little cups, and (o flings 
the Seed. 
8. $. Thefe Cafes grow in oblique Furrows or Trenches onthe back 
fide the Leaf, from$ of an Inch to an Inch in Length, and about ¿th 
of an Inch broad. Inone of thefe Trenches an Inch long are more than 
300 of the Cafes above defcribed ; and allowing but 10 Seeds to every 
Cafe, above 3000 Seeds. Which:being multiplied by the number of 
Furrows in one Leaf, with allowance for the lefler Furrows 5 and that 
fumm by the number of Leaves commonly growing upon one Root, 
comes to above Ten Hundred Thoufand Seeds, the annual produ& of 
this Plant. The Sced is of a Tawny Colowr,through a good Glaf about 
3:11 of an Inch long, flat, and fomewhat oval. Of thefe, ten Thou- 
fand are not fo big asa white Pepper Corn. 
Tab. 72, 
Tab. 72. 
CEPA PIL 
Of the feveral COV ERS of Seeds, and of the VE 
TELLUM. 
J BES HE next ftep of Natures Managery, relates chiefly 
SO the Growth of the Seed when it is fow'n. For 
¿Lao y which purpofe, the outer Covers are fomewhere 
furnifhed with Apertures fufficient for the recep- 
tion of Alimental Moyffer from the Ground ; and 
Divifions, for the shooting forth of the young 
Root into it, As in the Seed of a Gourd, at the 
Bottom ; in a Bean, on the Side ; and in a Chef 
nut, at the Top: in which places the Radicle or young Root always 
lies and puts forth, in the faid feveral Seeds. And the Seed of Palma 
Chrifti 3 which falls to the Ground not only in the ufual Covers, but 
alfo in the Seed-Café, for the more plentiful admiffion of Aliment, hath 
adouble Aperture. Not much unlike to this, is that found fometimes 
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