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Such a Seed or Kernel being cut acrofs, you would think 
the Particles of which it is compos d, to nothing but 
irregular Globules fqueez*d or comprefs'd clofe together. 
Fig. 5". A reprefents fuch a Seed diverted ot its Mem- 
branes, and which feem'd to have but one Plant within it, 
whereas I have often feen under the Membranes another 
fmall Plant, which lay as if it were fqueex d into the fub- 
fiance of the Seed, and fo is not to be feen till the Seed 
be ftript of its Membranes, contrary to thofe of Nuts, 
Peaches, Almonds, d^c. which where there is two of them, , 
lye entire and diftinft in their proper Metiibranes, as I have 
hinted to you before. 
I have likewife obferved under the Membrane or Skin 
of an Orange-kernel three diftindt Seeds with their Plants,, 
but fomc of them indeed much bigger than the others. 
Thefe Seeds with their inclofed Plants are eafily divided 
into two Lobes or diftinft parts , infomuch that they do 
not feem to have been united but only where the fmall 
Plant lies ^ fo that the whole Kernel, Hg 5. A B, was 
fram'd by Nature for no other ufe, in my opinion, but to 
fofter and nourifh the tender Plant within, till it be able 
Ito ftand alone,and draw itsfubfiftance from the Earth about 
it. . ■^■^^•r:"^ " 
Having fplit the Seed, Fig. A B, into two parts, one 
half of which is reprefented by Fig, 6. C D E F, together 
with part of the Plant, that would have been a Tree flick- 
ing dole to it, you may fee the Plant it felf at C, n© big. 
ger than a grain of Sand to the naked Eye. 
That which induced me to give you foexaft as account 
of the Anatomy of an Orange kernel, was, becaufe I dip 
covered (to my great wonder) another Seed or Kernel;, 
together with its Plant, in the heart of the former. 
The counterpart of the aforefaid Kernel is defigned by 
Fig. 7. G H I K, and G the little pit or bed of the Plant, 
and in the faid Figure between H and K, the concavity 
wherein the fecond Seed alfolay, vid, D F in Fig* 6. 
This 
