C 949 ) 
III. AnExtraSt of a Letter from Mr. Anthony 
Van Leeuwenhoefc , to the R, S. containing 
bk Obfervations on the Seeds of Cotton^ Palra 3 
or Date-ftones, Cloves , NutmegSj Goofe- 
berries? Currans, Tulips, Caflla, Lime- Tree : 
On the Skjtt oftheHand^ andPores % of Sweat , 
the Cryfialline Humour y Optic Nervss, GaB y 
arid Scales of Fijh : and the Figures of fever al 
fait Particles^ &c, 
Since my former Obfervations on the Seeds of Plants, 
f Vide fhilofoph, Tranfaii. N 0 199, p. 700.) I was 
furprized to find a Variety from what I then wrote con- 
cerning the Mealy and Oily Subftance, as likewife the 
Embrio-plant itfeir, to be nouriftit by them ; in the Seeds 
of Cotton, which lie Eight or Nine in clufters, in the Cot- 
ton-wool that comes from India : For having opened the 
hard Shell or Rind, with which the Seeds are covered, 
and from whence the Cotton proceeds, and dripping 
them from that curious, thin, whitifh Coat, which wraps 
up each Seed fo as to look like a little round Egg, the 
Seed itfelf fhew'd, as Figure 1. which I have drawn lar- 
ger Fig. z. ABC ; differing and opening this, I found 
no Mealy Subftance at all, but four fmail Leaves enwrap- 
ping one another, and compaffing the Root that lay in 
the mid ft of them. Thefe Leaves are reprefented Fig. 3. 
DEFGH, fufficiencly large, to Ihew the Vefiels and dark 
green Globules bet ween th?rn. ED is the Root, in which 
were but few Globules. Some of thefe Globules being 
diflecled, fome Particles of them were of the faireft light 
Green I ever faw, others were of a very dark Green : 
a he are Three frna!! Pins I faften'd the' Leaves down 
— Kk k with. 
