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fted, and the leaves are extended as far as the outer Ihell or hult 

 of the Buck-wheat. I have, however, given a drawing of the 

 plant fo far magnified,- as to Ihcw it dittindtly ; and hkewife a fmall 

 llice of the feed cut tranfverfel} , in order to fliew in w hat manner 

 the young plant is placed in this feed. 



Fig. 25, H KLM, is the young plant taken out of the feed of 

 Buck- wheat, and feparated from the mealy fubllancc in which it lay, 

 and in which, as much as polfible, the feveral twills or folds are laid 

 open, and the whole (as I faid before) magnified juft enough to 

 Ihew the leaves and the future plant diftinAly. , 



II K L, is a large and very thin leaf, within \n hich lies another 

 leaf much fmaller and thinner, which it is very difficult to dillin- 

 guilh. This fmall leaf, I feparated a little from the larger one, 

 and let it dry in that pofition, that the hmner might the better dif- 

 tinguifh it; this is fhewn at letter K, and the part from which the 

 root and ftem will proceed is noted by the letter M. 



Another of thefe feeds I feparated from the hard fliell and mem- 

 brane inclofing it, and cut it tranfverfely near the point where 

 the root of the young plant is fituated : this I placed before the mi- 

 crofcope, and caufed a drawing to be made of it to fliew in what a 

 wonderful manner this young plant lies among the mealy fubllance 

 of the feed. 



Fig. 26, N O PQ, fhews the circumference of this piece or flice of 

 Buck-wheat, cut tranfverlely, as above mentioned, in which NOP 

 is the lower part of the leaf as far as it lies contiguous to the hulk, 

 and is that part of the leaf, which in the preceding figure is fhewn 

 at L or H. 



From P, the leaf runs inwards into the meal, and embraces or 

 defends the half of that part from which the root or llem will pro- 

 ceed, as is denoted by the letters P V T. 



The other fide of the leaf begins adjoining the infide of the hulk, 

 at P, lying clofe to it, half way round the feed, as far as P Q N ; fo 

 that in this part of the feed there is no meal next the hulk, but 



