of Vegetables. 



that by an infenfible Decreafe of the 

 Excavations without, and the Angles 

 within, the Piftil becomes gradually 

 round on the outfide, and leaves a 

 triangular Void within, fome little 

 Way belQW the Head. Each of 

 thefe Parts is a Groupe of longi- 

 tudinal Tubes, of which the Papilla^ 

 as being the Heads of them, are 

 an Expanfion, and may be traced 

 throughout the whole Length of the 

 Piflil by means of the Microfcope, 

 in which a tranfverfe Section of it 

 in any Part appears as if perforat- 

 ed with innumerable Holes. Thefe 

 longitudinal Tubes are fo concentred 

 in the Medulla of the Uterus (which 

 is a Subftance much more denfe 

 than the Placenta, and fituated in 

 the Middle of it) that each Grain 

 or Seed may be impregnated by 

 means of a fmall Stem which com- 

 municates with it, * Thus the Me- 

 dulla ftcms to be an Expanfion of 

 F 2 the 



* In the Floivers of Holyoke, which hear their 

 Stamina upon the Pijlil itfelf and rcfemhle thofe of 

 the Mallow in ahnofi every Particular, hut that 

 of Size f ivhich they much exi~eed s the Continua- 

 tion 



