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afide)aoes partly lie furrounded witha rcertain fluff, where- 
of the young Plant receives fo long its Nutriment and 
Growth , until the Root has received fo much Nou- 
riihment and Encreafing, that it can fubfift in the 
Earth, which agrees with the Male Animals of Eggs of 
Sirds,orthcNouri(bment of the Animals in their Womb>. 
as is often here before faid, for the whole in Fig, 2. of 
D. 6. is filled up with the faid StafJ. 
When we did Contemplate the Film or Membrane at- 
tenfively, which does furroundthe Pith, v/edid not on- 
Jy fee a great many very fmall VefTcls , but we 
(aw alfb in it an incredible number of little Balls fhort- 
ly, if we could penetrate into all the Secrets that lye 
included there : What fliould not we fee ? for certain- 
ly in this finall Plant is concluded every thing that does 
belong to a Fig-tree. 
After I had laid (bme of thefe Seeds for two or three 
hours in Water, and did then Diflefl: them, I could 
fte as well in that part that was to make the Root, as 
alfo in the Leaves a great many of the Veflels, befetted 
with Hair as Shutters ; but as foon as the moifture was 
gone, the Veflels did alfo difappear. 
/vg. 3. H.1,K. doth reprefent the fame Plant as 
Fig, only with this difference, that as Fig. 2. is (b 
delineated that you fee it leaves fideway, whereby you 
cannot (ee the breadth of them ; wherefore the fame 
Plant in Fig. 3. isfo fixed before the Magnifying Glafe, 
that you may fee the breadth of the Leaves of the young 
Plant. 
If I am defired to refblve my Pofition concerning the 
Procreation of Animals by the Seed of the Males, which 
is done often by Perfons of Quality that come to vifit 
me, then they put me to mind wh v diere is (b many 
fmall Animals in a very fmall quantif y of Seed, confi« 
dering (as they fiy) that Nature has cieatcd nothing in 
vain* To 
