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i 8. I K L M N O 3 in this Tube I put 5 or I Seeds, and 
laid between each oi them a little wet Sand, 
This Sand was very ii©e and white, and of that fort 
which is us'd for the making of Gkfs 5 I had taken it above 
12 year J ago out of & Glafs-houfc , and had kept it always 
dry in my Clofet in s Moncy*bag5 it was 4igg'd, as I am 
told, io the Bifti0f)rick of Li^^f. 
I proceeded with this Tube as I had done before with 
my Copper- box, having ftopt it with a piece of Gork^ 
vid. Fig. i8/LPaM, 
On the teath day I obfcrv'd that the Seed waicome to 
that maturity, that the part which Nature intends for the 
body of the Tree, was grown up aj high as the Cork ^ I 
peur'd a little Sand out of the Tube, that the Limner 
might more eafily perceive the ©ermination of the Plants 
and cut off part of the Cork, and upon the tweifth day it 
appear d as in the faid Fig. 1 8« R S T. 
Having done this, I took the Plant out of the Glaft- 
Tube, and caus d the Limner to draw it, as you may fee 
in Fig, 19. ABCD E F G H,., only you muft obferve tfeat 
this Plant hid but one Root A C D Hj but becaufe others 
have morcj I caufed \xm to dcfcribe them together, ai 
you will fee in B G* 
In this laft figure F G rcprefents that part which is to 
be the Tree, DE the Seed or Kernel, which being fur- 
TomAtd with its Membrane^ I took them off, that I might 
|hc better cxpofc to your fight thofe partt thereof that 
ferve for the nourifhracnt not only of the Root, but of 
tlie upper parts of the Plant like wife, as alfo the (liort 
ftring D. 
Now forafmucfa aj I have obfcrved irr the Roots of feve- 
ral other Germinating Plants, that & great many fmall 
Roots of unfpcakable finenefs fpruag from them, I placed 
the fame Plant, fig- 19. with that part of the Root which 
is defcrib'd by G, before a common Mierofcope, and thca 
iicw'd the Limner the infinite number of Saort fmall Roots 
Sfflffff fpring- 
