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Tab. 80. 
Tab. 80. 
Tab. 80. 
Tab, 80, 
tinued, not only through the Pulp, but alfo through the Stone it felf, 
into the hollow of the fame, where it meets, and is united with the 
Lining thereof. Whereby, as it further helps to the drying and hard- 
ning of the Stone; fo alfo renders it cleavable in that part, where it runs 
through it. . And therefore, whereas towards the Stalk , it goes no far- 
ther than to the Seed-Branch, and fo but half way through the Stone: 
towards the Top of the Fruit, where the Radicle ftands, and where 
the Stove begins to cleave, it runs quite through it. 
7. $. Nature having thus provided a convenient Uterws, She next” 
taketh care about the Membranes of the Fetus. Thefe are Three appa- 
rently diftinét, and in many refpeétsdifferent one from another. 
8. $. The outer Membrane is derived from the Parenchyma which 
furrounds the Seed-Branch 5 which, upon its entry into the hollow of 
the Stone, isexpanded, asit were, into two Bladders, one within an- 
other; whereof, one becomes the Lining of the Stone; the other, 
this outer Membrane : as is beft feen by cuting a young Aprecock, when 
it is about half an Inch long, down through the midle, or from the Seat 
of the Flower to the stalk, between the two Lips, 
9. § This outer Membrane, at this age, hatha good fall and frim 
Body, about +,th of an Inch thick, or through an ordinary Glaf, halfan 
Inch, where it is thickeft, as at the Sides and the greater end: the 
Poynt being thinner, for the more eafy.eruption of the Radicle into the 
Earth. Compofed of Bladders, through an ordinary Glafs, about as 
big, as a Colewort-Seed. 
10. $. Throughout this Membrane, the Vefels conteined in the 
Seed-Branch are diftributed. Beginning a little below the fmaller end of 
the Coat or Membrane, they thence fetch their circuit both ways round 
about, juft beneath the Surface of the Membrane, and at laft, meet in 
the midle of the greater end, where they are all inofculated, fo as to 
make a kind of wmbilical Node. From whence they ftrike deeper into 
it, and at laft,into the midle Membrane, in which they prefently become 
invifible. By thefe Vefels, the Sap is brought and {pewed intothe midle 
Membrane. So that the outer Membrane {eemeth, in fome refpects, to 
be anfwerable to the Placenta in Animals. 
11. $. The midle Membrane, is derived from the bottome of the 
Outer. From whence efpecially, but alfo round about, the Bladders 
hereof (all angular) are more and more amplified towards the Centres 
moft of them being at leaft two hundred times biger, than thofe ofthe 
Outer Membrane: whereby it looks, through a G/aß, not unlike a 
Coome full of Hony; or in regard of their great tranfparency, like a 
company of little Cryféal Pans tull ofa pure Lympha. 
12. $. This Midle Membrane, is properly fo called, from the ftate 
and condition it hath, upon the Angmentation of the Seed, at which 
time, it obteins the nature of an Involuerum. But originally, it is 
every whereentire, without any Hollow, filling up the Cavity of the 
Outer Membrane, like a foft and delicate Pulp. After a fhort Hng 
there 
