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the Bottom ofthe Muin Body, here ities in a fmall round Cavity in 
the middle of the Back, The Stone, or Main Body, wherethis Part 
grows to it, is not fo hard,: as more remote from it : and is therefore 
probably in fome part diffolved , by lying in the Ground, as in 
orn. 
4.$. But for the moft part, the Main. Body is divided, -as hath been 
faid, intotwo Lobes; and thofe ¡in Subítance Homogeneous to the o- 
ther“ Part or Parts, plainly diftinguilhed in moft Kernels and other 
large seeds 5 and not difficulely in many leffer ones, asin that of Viole 
Lunaris, Scabious, Doves-Foot, Exc. if flipped out of their Covers be- 
fore they are full ripe. 
5-5. In Hounds-Tongue, they are of acircular figure, and very large in 
Proportion to the Radicle. "In Cucumer, oblong , with fome vilible 
Branches of the Seminal Roots and the Radicle Somewhat bigger. But 
in Scorzonera, very long, like the Leggs of a Pair of Compafís : and 
the two firft, or diffimular Leavs of the Plant into which they are 
converted, are of the fame Shape. Of thefe and many more, the 
Ba is fhort and pointed; and lies in one ftraight Line with the 
obes, 
6. $. In Viola Lunaria, they are very large; and the Branches of 
the Seminal Root, fairly apparent, fo as to refemble a Pair of Leavs. 
The Radicle pretty long, equally thick from end to end, andcouched 
down upon the two Lobes, each of them having little Shoulder for it 
tolicupon. In Woad, where it hath the like Poffure and shape, as alfo 
in Chamelina, Eruca, and many others, it is very Bulky, being bigger 
than ‘both the Labes put together. 1 H 
7.$. Of this Part, I think itmay be obferved, That commonly thofe 
seeds, wherein it is very fmall with refpe&t to the Lobes, produce a 
Perennial Plant : And fo, vice ver/a, where it is very large, an Ananal 
‘one. | Inthelatter, the Seminal Virtue being more vigorous, and fo 
tending more haftily tothe Bufinefs of Generation, followed with the 
‘Death ofthePlant. r 
8.§. IN THE former Seeds, the Lobes lic flat one againít another. 
But in Garden-Radifh, they are folded up, foas to receive the Radi- 
ele into their Bofome : as .whenva Chicken: tucks his Head under his 
Wing. 
of. In Holyoak, the Labes are plated upwards, ‘and re-plated 
down again. Being moft agreeably compofed to the Shape of the 
Covers, as thofe are to their Pofture on the Plant. In Maple, they are 
plated one over another, and forouled up. 
10. $. Inthe Cottox-Seed,which confiftethalmoft wholly of two very 
broad and thin Lobes or Leaves, the Folds are yet more numerous 5 all 
curioufly reduced'to an exact and folid Oval. 
11. $. It happens now and then, that inftead of two, there are 
three Lobes, asin the Kernels of Plums, Apples, and other Fruits, and 
the fmaller forts of Seeds, will {pring up fometimes with more than 
two diffimilar Leaves, originally the Lobes of the Seed. « Thefe are ob» 
ferved by fome, more frequently to produce a double Flower, which 
may be, becaufe the feminal Virtue in fuch Seeds, is increafed by athird 
art. 
12.$.IN 
