CA of ` Seeds. ari 
‘Book IV. 
there appears in it a fmall Duéfas or Chanel 5 which runs ftom the bot- 
tom to the top, like an Axis, through the midle of it. At firft, Tab. 8t, 
no wider than to receive the Hair of a Mans Head 3 not vilible, ex- 
cept in a flice hereof cut tranfverlly, and viewed in a Glafs. Being 
grown a little wider, it may be fen, if the Membrane be dexteroufly 
cut by the length, At which time, it is alfo dilated into two Oval 
Cavities, one at each end : which are astwo little Ciiferzs, whereinto 
a moft pure Lympha continually owzeth, and is therein referved for 
the nourifhment of the Seed 3 and through the Chanel which runs be- 
tween the Cifferns is emptied out of one Ciflern into another, according 
as the Seed or the Inmoft Membrane hath need of it 5 7. e. as the Wea- 
ther and other Circumftances do more or lef accelerate their Growth, 
and fo render the Lympha ufeful to them. 
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alow of 13. $. A few days after this, the Innermoft Membrane begins to 
in a appear; growing, like a foft Node or Bud, out of the upper Cöftern 5 
tothe lower end of which it is joyned by a fhort and tender Stalk ¿from Tab. 814 
whence it is produced into a Conick;oval Figure, anfwerable to that of 
the Giftern, 
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14. $. This Membrane, though foft and full of Sap, yet being 
compared with the midlemoft, isa clofe and compaét Body, compofed 
of Bladders above 300 times fmaller than they are in that; Whereby, 
as the Seed is fo well guarded, as not to be fupplyed with any part of 
the Lympha, but the pureft : fo neither with any more of this, than 
will faffice, without the danger of making an Irundatior out of fo great 
a Lake. 
15. $. This Membrane, ifit be pulled with a moft fteady hand,and 
very gently, upwards, it will draw a fmall tranfparent String after it 
to the bottom of the Midle Membrane : The faid String though for 
the greater part, Parenchymous, yet being ftrengthened with the ad- 
mixture of {ome Lignons Fibres 3 no otherwife vilible in either of thefe 
two Membranes. So that they feem, to be a fmall portion of thofe 
which are inofculated at the bottome of the Outer Membrane, and 
thence produced through the midlemoft, underneath the Chanel, till at 
laft they break forth into the upper Cifferm, where they form this In- 
ner Membrane : a piece of clofe-wrought Work, fuitable to the in- 
comparable finenefs of all the stuf’ out of which it is made. 
one dl e 16. $. The fame Membrane is originally entire, as the Midlemoft: 
„Be tur being grown to about the bignelS of a Carvi-Seed, becomes a little 
je Gm hollow near the Gone. And the Lignous Fibersaboveluid, fetching their 244 81. 
‚hole it compaís from the Bafe, fhoot forth into the Cone ; and fo make a very 
sot unbe fmall Node therein, for the firt Effay towards the Generation of the 
a Seed. The faid Fibers being thus fpun out,to the utmoft degree of fine- 
4 nef for this purpofe. 
17. $. This Node, being grown about ¿'h part as big as a Cheefe- 
Mite ; it begins next to be divided by a little indenture at the Top. Tab, 8x 
Which growing by degrees ftill deeper, the Node is hereby at length x 
diftinguifhed into two Lobes or thick Leavs. 
18. $. 
