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'An A$Mmpt of fome BQokjf 
I The AN JTOMT of FEQETJ^LES h^m^ mhk^§§' 
liiiah Qx^w jlf.D.Filkn?&f the R,oy^l Society^id/I. m 
THe logenious and Learned Author of this Book mn^ 
fidering with hiEofelf , tliat the Anatomy of Ifegetahles 
hath hitherto been much uucultivated^aod that yet it Tcry well 
deferved the labours of dihgentN^taraHfts, hath here attcra- 
p^ted tomakea very particular Inquiry into the Cootitociou 
and StrujStiire of Plants ^ and thereupon to found, a rational 
pifcoiirfe concerning the Nature of Vegetation, Whioh be« 
ing unidertake n by hirn^ he advertifeth thofe that iliall think 
0t to exarnine thefe QbferYations of his, not on'ys tbat thiey 
feegin^and fo proceed till they end again, with ihQ Seed-, hnt: 
alfo; that; they confine not their Inquiries to one time of the 
Year^but to make them in (everalSgafons, wherein the Parts of 
zJ^egetable imy b^/eeaiq their fev^ral Eft^tes : And then^tha^c 
they negleft not the Comparative Anatomy ^confronting feifera.! 
Vegetables and their feveral parts together. 
The Method he chufeth in the profecutioii of this fuh|.e<ft, \% 
theMethoc! of Nature'h^r felf^ in her coDtiniied Series of V.ef 
getations^procceding from the Seed fown, to the formation 9^' 
ihQl{p3tyTrm^jBrausb, Leaf, F/gwer^ Fruit ; and laftlyj of the 
Seed to be fawn againpt in its f|ate of Generatiop. 
Difcourfing o£tbe Seed^s Vegetating, he difled:^ a Gardm. 
Bean^ and Ai^ws ihe two €oats thereof; the FMamen in the 
outer.Cft^f 5 and what is geaerally obfervable of the Covers oi 
the Seed. This done^he difplays the proper Seed it fe'f , a,ad. 
therein finds three conftituent and as 'twere Organical parts 
of the Bean, vi^ the M^in Bodvj always divided, into twQ 
J^ob'es (though in (ome few other feeds into more 9 ) and two 
other appendjantjo the^4(/J>of the Bean 5 whereof the one \$ 
called by him the being th^r^which, upon the vege- 
tation of the Seed, becomes the. T^ot 5 the other ^ the Pjume^ 
.which beconis the Trm\oi the Plant ^ and beingdivjded^acjt,?- 
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