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part of the feeds which I examined were very old, yet I found that 

 this young plant contained in it a confiderable quantity of oil. 

 Some other feeds I opened, in which the young plant was fo frcfti 

 that I thought I could make it vegetate, but I have yet met with 

 no Cotton feeds which I could by any means caufe to grow. 



I afterwards faw, in a curious gentleman's cabinet in this town, 

 fpecimens of two other Indian feeds, in which the leaves and root 

 of the future young plant were extraordinary large, but no oil or 

 mealy fubftance, fo that we find there are fome feeds which contain 

 only the young future plant or tree. 



If any one is defirous of feeing the young plant in great per- 

 fedion, as it hes in the mealy fubftance of the feed, let him ex- 

 amine the feed of the Lime tree * when ripe ; for in this feed are 

 to be feen two leaves not flattened nor folded up, but of a perfe6l 

 handfome fliape, the fame as a young leaf on the tree ; and through 

 the microfcope the veiTels or fibres in the leaves are as plainly to 

 be feen, as with the naked eye we can fee them in a full grown 

 leaf: the origin or firfh rudiment of the young plant, which in 

 this feed is extraordinary large, is placed in the contrary direction 

 from the parent tree, whereas in other feeds it points towards the 

 tree : this young plant, before it comes to its full growth in the 

 feed, is not of a green colour, but when full grown it becomes of 

 a bright yellowifh green. 



* A figure of this is given in Baker's Employment for the Microfcope. 



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