Book IV, of Seeds. 209 
CHAP. VL 
Of the GENERATION of the SEED. 
ner of the Vegetation of the Seed : fo I (hall take 
an Aprecock, as very apt and convenient, to ob- 
ferve and reprefent the Method which Nature ta- 
*) keth in its Generation. 
2. $. In order to this, the firft thing that is to 
be done, is to make a fit Uterus. Both to keep 
z RA S I made choice of a Garden-Bean, to fhew the mari- 
idiei jii the Membranes ofthe Fetus warm, and fücculent, 
ù ie tillit be formed : and to preferve and fecure the Fetus it felf after- 
send Ti wards, till it comes to be born into the Ground. 
mie 3. $. For this purpofe, the Pulp and Stone of the Fruit are both 
neceflary ; but primarily the stone + the Meat or Pulp being no other- 
wife neceflary, but becaufe the Stove cannot be made without it; the 
petrifying of that Parenchyma which is the Ground of the Stone, being 
effected, by the finking of the Tartar from the Pulp thereinto. 
4. $. And that, at the firft, the Ground of the Stone, is a diftind, 
but foft Parenchymas is evident in the cuting of a young Aprecoch. 
Of which, alfo a flice cut off, with a Rafor, and viewed through a 
good Gafi, thewcth it to be compofed of Blidders, as the Pup it 
felf. Only, whereas many of thoft of the Pulp are large, now about 
as bigas a white Pepper-Corn: thefe are no bigger than a Mujtard- 
Seed. But as the Parenchyma hardens into a Stone, thefe Bladders 
are all gradually filled up, and difappear. 
Tab. 82, 
5. $. This Paremchyma is derived immediately from the Pith, as the 
Pulp is from the Barque ; and makes the far greater part of the Stone. 
“Tis covered all over within,with a very thin Living 3 derived,not from 
the Pith but the Parenchyma which covers the Seed- Branch upon its firft 
entrance within the hollow of the Stone. This Lining is ofa clo 
fubftances yet compofed of Biadders,exquifitely {mall and hardly vifible, 
By which means, it foon becomes a very hard and dry Body 3 and is Typ, 86, 
hereby fitted, both to promote the induration of the reft of the Stone; “~~” 
and the feafonable drying, and fo, the (hrinking up, of the Covers of 
the Seed, to make room for its Growth. 
6. $. The Stone being made hard and dry ; it could never be fo 
A fofficiently foftned by lying under gtound, but that, it would keep the 
(th! Seeda perpetual prifoner, unlefs it were alfo made pretty eafily to cleave 
intwo. For which purpofe, the Skiz of the Fruit doth obfervably Tab, go, 
conduce. Forina Slice ofa young Aprecock cut tranfverfly with a 
very fharp knife, it may be feen, efpecially with the help of a Glaf, to 
be doubled inward from the two Lips of the Frait, and fo to be con- 
Kk tinued, 
