T The Anatomy Book IV. 
fome thickneß, as in Plums, Borage, Scabions. Yet always extream 
thin at the Tip of the Radicle; the more eafily to break and yield to 
it, as the Secundine to the Fetus, when it firít fhoots into the Ground, 
ue And fometimes, as in the Seeds of an Orange, it bath at cne end, the 
Tab. 75. refemblance of a Placenta, But of this, and the two upper Coats, E 
fall give a further Defcription in the laft Chapter. 
9. $. AS ALL Seeds are exOvo5 lo there are many with thin 
Covers, as of Orach, Spinage, Beet, and the reft of that Tribe, &e. 
which befides the Albumen or clear Liquor out of which they are bred 5, 
have alfo, a itellum, or a Body thereunto Analogus : being neither pare 
of the Seed, nor part of the Covers, but diftin& from them both. With 
ae refpeå to the Bulk of the Seed, very large, as whiteas Starch, and pret- 
Tab.75. ty friable, like good Rice or Barley: ofa roundith Figure, and grooved 
on the Girth, fo asto have a double Edge ; Whereby the Sced, which 
is long and flender, lies round it, as a Sack of Cormupon a Pack-Saddle 
ora Rope upon a Pully-wheel. Upon my firft notice hereof, it feemed 
to anfwer to a Placenta, But upon further confideration, the Anal 
doth not hold betwixt them. For the Placenta lies without the Mem- 
branes in which the Fetus is conteined: whereas this body lies within 
the Covers contiguous to the Seed, and fo becomesits firit and fineft A- Ri 
liment, as the Yelk doth tothe Chick, For which purpofe, as in the Ge- ‘al 
neration of the Seed, it isa pure Milky Chyle 5 So in its Vegetation, it is 
converted into the like again, 
10. $. The fame Body for Suftance, is obfervable in the seeds of 
Tab.75. Rhapontick, Dock, Sorrel, and the reft of that kindred, with thisdif- 
122% ference; That whereas in Orach, Exc. the Seed only lies upon it ; here, 
the main Body or Lobes of the Seed are immerfed therein, the Radicle 
ftanding naked or above it. So that the faid Lobes, and therein the 
Seminal-Root are beded herein, as in a Tub of Meal or a little pot of pure 
refit’d Mould, neceflary for the firft Vegetation of the Radicle. 
11. § BY THESE midle Steps, . Nature proceeds from the 
Thiner Covers of Seeds ; or thofe, which after the Generation of the 
Seed is finifhed, fhrink up; to the Bulky Kind, or thofe which keep 
their Bulk after they are dry. Wherein, not only the Lobes, as in 
Dock, but the whole Seed is immediately lodged. Different in Sub- 
fiance, Shape and Bulk; but always many times biger than the true Seed 
within it: for which itis commonly miftaken 5 but is no more the Seed, 
than is the Stone of a Plum, the Kernel, 
12. $. Inthe Barbado Nut, ‘tis White, Soft, Comick-oval, and taż 
King all its Disentions, 8 or 10 times bigger than the Seed within it. 
In Afhen Keys, ‘tis of a fad Colour, hard, yet fomewhat Oyly, Oval and 
fiat, and of the fame Bigvefsasinthe Barbado Nit, with refpe& tothe 
Tab. 76, ‘Seed. In the Fruit commonly called Nux Vomica Officinarnm, "ts of 
the Colour and Hardnefs of a Cows-Horne; and makes almoft the whole 
Body of the Fruit, being about 14 or 15 times the Bulk of the Seed, 
In Goofgrafs or Cliver 'tis of the like Horny Subftance, but (haped fome- 
what like a Bonet with the Rim tuckt in. And fo in a Coffee-Berry; but 
rowled or foulded up intoa kind of Oval Figure, with a Notch or Ri- 
ma through the Length, where the two Ends meet. With other diver- 
fities which will beft be underftood, ‘when I come prefently to the De- 
Seription of the Seed herein contained. 
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