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Stomachs, and others fty, (whereof one is a Man of 
great Fame) that if we eat too many Figs we grow 
Loufie : Muft not we Laugh, when we hear fuch (illy 
Aflertions, and conclude, that this faying doth only 
proceed from the great number of fmall Seeds where- 
wSih a Fig is loaded ? Which parts not one in a Thou- 
iand doth know to be Seeds, and much kfs, that fach a 
Perfe&ion is hidden or contained in every one of thefe 
Seeds, which in time would become to be a compleat 
Fig-tree, Let us then perfwade our felves, that they 
compare the fmall Seeds that are in the Figs unto Lice • 
and that they therefore afiert, that Figs can make Lice 
grow. . 
Fig. I. A, B. C. doth (how the Pith or Kernel that is 
taken oi^t.of the hard Husk, whereof we fee a great 
many in a Fig, 
-^.JS. R^xefentsthat part of the Pith or Kernel,w here- 
by it was nourifhed, did grow and was faftned by the 
String. 
Now that part that is to grow into a Root and Stem, 
is expanded from AtoC. and the leaves of this young 
Plant do lye from G to B. 
Every one of thefe faid fmall Seeds of a Fig, are di^ 
ftinit from one another, and are furrounded by a Mem- 
brane, fo that we muft imagine, that every Seed, (bas 
itlyeth in the Fig, has two Strings to nourifh it, viz, 
one that nouriftiech the Husk, and another that nourifli- 
eth the Pith or Kernel 
Fig,x. D. E. F. G, does fliew the young Plant taken 
out of a Fig Seed ; wherewith S. F. G, are reprefented 
the two Leaves thereof, and G. D. E, is that part thae^ 
grows into the Root and Stem. 
, You muft not imagine, that this young Plant makes 
up the whole Kernel or Pith, but you muft think^ that 
tte; young Plant (the membrane of the Pith being let 
afide) 
