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the Pemvinkle are dilVinj^iiiiliable bv the fame kind of creafe or 

 think, as is to be feeii in coffee berries. 



Six of thefe feeds, I fteeped in water for feveral hours, in order 

 that I might be able to cut them, through the hard Ihell or hufl-;, 

 into very thin flices ; and, upon placing thole flices before the mi- 

 crofcope, I law, in evoy feed, the young plant concealed. I faw 

 likewife, in feveral of them, the two leaves with ^vhich thefe kijid of 

 voung plants arc generally provided, and thefe fmall leaves, ^^•]licIl, 

 m dilleciting the I'eed, I had cut through, appeared fomcwhat of a 

 flat ihape : I alfo could diftinguifh the veins and venels in thefe leaves. 

 Upon repeating the experiment, I cut through that place in the feed 

 which partly Ihoots upwards into a ftalk, and partly jienetrates down- 

 wards into a root. And here, I could difcern the vellels, deftincd to 

 convey tliejuices upwards or downwards, to thofe refj)e6live parts of 

 the plant. In Ibme of thefe feeds, however, the young plant was not 

 conipleatly formed. 



After this, I cut the outer luifk or fliell, and the farinaceous fub- 

 llance which furrounded the young plant, into very I'mall piaces 

 Icngthwife, in order to take the young plant, whole and entire out of 

 the feed. And having fuccecded therein to my wilh, I clearly per- 

 ceived in the plant the two oblong leaves I have mentioned, with their 

 veil'els and veins ; and I farther faw, that the fides of the leaves, 

 which lay next eacli other, were fomewhat flat, the outer fides of 

 them rounding. The veilels on the fides of the leaves, on account 

 of their opacity, I could not perfec^lly diftinguifli. The young plant, 

 inclofed in the feed, I judged to be fixteen times fmaller than the feed 

 itielf 



Tlie young plant in the feed of this herb. Periwinkle, is remark- 

 ably long and flender ; the plant itfelf does not rife up into a fialk, 

 but creeps along on the ground. And, as in this refpedl, it is fimilar 

 to moll plants of ilu vinefpccics, which are by nature what is called 



