Of the young Plant difcernible in Seeds, and on the Blo//oms, 

 Fruit, a?id young ffbod, in the Buds of Fruit Trees. 



x\.FTER examining the young plant in Wheat, I turned my at- 

 tention to that in Rye, and after ftripping off the external Ikin or 

 hufk from the feed, I took out the young plant, and placed it be- 

 fore the mifcrofcope. 



Plate XIX. Jig. 23, ABCD, is the young plant in a grain of 

 Rye, as feen by the microfcope, A a B D, are the parts from which 

 the roots and Hems, or ftraws, will proceed ; C is the top of the firfl: 

 leaves in the young plant. Upon cutting this young plant tranf- 

 verfely at the end next A, I could only perceive the beginning of 

 one flalk or llem cut acrofs ; but when I cut a little farther towards 

 B or D, till I came to a, I perceived two ftems, and ll:ill farther to 

 B D, I faw the beginnings of three flalks or ftems ; and though I 

 could not at firll fee more than the beginnings of three llems or 

 flalks, yet I was very well convinced in my own mind, that every 

 grain of Rve has in it the origin of four ftalks or Hems; for A a, 

 are two principles or rudiments of the largeft young ftalks or ftems, 

 and B and D are two other principles or beginnings : at length, 

 after difle^ling tranfverfely many grains of Rye, I perceived that I 

 had cut through four feveral trunks, ftems, or ftalks at one cutting. 

 All thefe young plants are placed in a kind of meal, which is not 

 fo white as the reft of the fubftance of the Rye. 



I have not given drawings of thefe young ftems or ftalks cut 

 tranfverfely in the grains of Rye, partly, becaufe I could not place 

 them before the limner's view fo diftinc^ly as in Wheat, and alfo 



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