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witli. Tliefe Leaves, as I (aid, were fpotted all over 
with little Specks 5 and enquiring of fome that had ften 
the Cotton grow, they told me, the Lea ves of the Plant 
itfelf were thus fpotted So that we fee, that Nature in 
this Subject, does not only wrap up the future Plant, 
but fuch a little Plant whofe very Leaves are the fame as 
on the grown Tree, only fmaller. 
This brought to my Mind that I had obferved irr the 
Eggs of fome Infedb (taken out of their Bodies) none of 
that Subftance defigned for the Nutrition of the Embrio • 
but that in thefe Eggs were contained perfe# and Jiving 
Animals : fo that as thefe Animals are perfeft in the Egg, 
even whilfl it is yet in the Vterus of the Parent, fo the 
Cotton-feed contains a perfeft Plant, even whilft it yet 
hangs on the Tree ; and befides, that part whence the 
Root grows is very large. And as the forementioned 
Animalcules need no Yolk in the Egg, being already per- 
fe£t and fitted to fearch their Food abroad, Co the Seeds 
of this Plant contain fuch an Embrio-plant as is already 
fit to fhift for itfelf, and as foon as it falls from the Tree, 
the wet it meets with burits the Shetland it ftrikes Root, 
and difplays its Leaves. 
I cut the little Root tranfverfe ; and whereas the in- 
nermoft part in others is round or oval, in this it was 
eight-fided, wherefore I have drawn it Fig. 4. ABCD. 
This part was full of Pores, and encompafs'd with a 
fmooth white Body, in which I could fee no Pores.ZT/G/i/, 
and this again was environed with another Body like the 
innermoft, full of Pores, only they were fmaller, IKLM. 
Tho' fome of the Seeds I examin'd were very old, yet 
they contained a great deal of Oyl, and in fome the Em- 
brio was fo frelh , that I thought it might grow, tho' I 
could never yet meet with a Seed that would. 
Before I had made any Obfervations on Date-ftones, 
I thought no other, but that the hard (hell was only the 
covering to the Seed or Kernel ; but I found it quite 
other- 
