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Microfcope, it appears a large body, cover'd witha tough thick and bright - 
reflecting {kin very irregularly fhrunk and pitted, infomuch thatitisal- 
moft an impoffibility to find two of them wrinkled alike, fo great a ya 
riety may there be even in thislittle feed. ts (0 
, This, though it appear'd one of the moft promifing feeds for beauty to 
the naked eye,yet through the Aéicro/cope it appear'd but a rude mifhapen 
feed, which therefore drew, that I might thereby manifeft how unable 
we are by the naked eye to judge of beauteous or lefs curious microfeopi- 
cal Objects; cutting fome of them in funder, I obfervd them tobe fill’d 
witha greenith yellow pulp, and to have a very thick hufk, in. propor- 
tion to the pulp. : | , 
Obferv. X XIX. Of the Seeds of Tyme. 
at Hefe pretty fruits here reprefented, in the 18. Scheme, are nothing 
4 elfe;but nine feveral feeds of Tyme; they are all of them in differ+ 
ing pofture,both as to the eye and the light; nor are they all ofthem ex: 
attly of the fame fhape, there being a great variety both in the bulk and 
figure Of each feed ; but they all agreed in this,that being look’d on with 
a Microfeope, they each of thein exactly refermbled'a Lemmon or Orange 
dry’d and this both in fhape and colour. Some of themiate a little 
rounder; of the fhape of an Orange, as A and By they have‘each of 
them ‘a’ very confpicuous part by which ee joitrd to their little 
ftalk,and one of thenthad a little piece of ftalk remaining on 3 the‘oppo- 
fite fide of the feed, you may perceive very plainly by’ the Figure.is very 
copped and prominent, as is very ufual in Lemmons, which prominencies 
are exprefs'd in D, E and F. 30D | I (aim HOT 
© They: feem’d each of thei little creas‘d-or wrinckled; but E was 
very confpicuoufly furrow’d, asif the inward make‘of this feed'had’been 
fomewhat like that of a Lemfnon alfo, but upon dividing feveral feeds 
with a very fharp Pen-knife, and ‘examining them ‘afterward, “I found 
their make to be in nothing but bulk differing from that of Peas,that is,to 
havea pretty thick coat,and all the reft an indifferent white’ pulp; which 
feem'd very clofe ; fo that it feems' Nature does not'very much aleer her | 
method in the tanner‘of ihclofing and preferving ‘the vital Principle in 
the feed, in thee very final] grains, from that of Beans, Peas, Cres) 
The Grain affords a very pretty Objeé& for the AZicrofcope, namely, a 
Dith of Lemmons plac’d in a very little room 5 fhoulda Lemmon or Nut 
be proportionably magnify'd te what this feed of Tyme is,it would make 
it appear as bigg as alarge Hay-reek.and it would bé ino great wondet to 
fee Homers Iiads, and Homer and all, cramth d into fach a Nut-fhell. We 
May perctive even in thefe {mall-Grains, as well as in greater, how curl 
‘ous and carefull. Nature is in preferving the feminal. prin pléof V ge 
table bodies, in what delicate, ftrong and pee convenient Cabinets 
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