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fir ft, while the Seed is young, is upwards ; but after- 
wards the Seed and Fruit growing heavier, it bends their 
Stalk, and turns downwards to the Earth. The fame 
thing is in Apples, Pears, &c. Thefe Ligaments by 
which the Seeds are nourifh'd have their Coats or Bark, 
within. which 5 as I guefs, are more than 1 00 (mail Vel-. 
(els, in the Filberd, all wreathed and twitted up after a 
Spiral manner, as in Fig. 6. It is obfervable, that this. 
Ligament is faftned (in almofl: all Seeds) to that part 
whence the Embrio Plant arifes, as in Fig. 7« which re- 
ptefents a Filberd larger than the Life, that the Vellelsc. 
proceeding from the Ligament may be more vifible. 
Where the Ligament goes from A to B branching all the 
way into Ramifications, and they again into Iefler, all 
which meet again at the place whence they began, that 
is, where the Plant is to have it's beginning. 
In the 8th Fig. I have (hewn the Ligament of an Ah 
mond, which being naturally pretty large, I the rather 
pitch'd upon it, It is cut tranfverfe. C D E*PG is the: 
Cortical part thereof; it is divided into 7 Partitions, 
meeting at each whereof is of a reddiih Subftance;. 
the Veflels to be (een in one of the (paces are reprefented 
by FG H y from the View whereof may be collected the. 
great number of Veffels in the whole Ligament , by 
means whereof the Seeds of the Almond and Filberd are - 
nourifli'd : For I could find no difference in the Liga- 
ments of thefe two Seeds, only in the Almond all the. 
parts were larger. 
If we confider the Propagation of Animals, and that 1 
they are (b long nourifti'd in the Vterus by means of 
the VmlilicalVettds, till they are fit for a more open. 
Life, and are then no longer kept Prifoners. And again, 
that the Embrio which is to be the future Plant, perhaps, 
a Tree is fo long contained in that Body which we call 
the Seed, and fed by means of a Ligament from its Ma-* 
trix, to wit, the Tree, till it be of a .competent growth, 
