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ready been accurately done by Dr. Grew 
and Malpighi. 
We fee by Experiment 56/ 57, 58, on 
diftilled Wheat, Peafe and Muftard-fecd, 
what a wonderful provifion nature has made, 
that the Seeds of Plants fliould be well ftored 
with very aftive principles, which princi- 
ples arc there compared together by him, 
who curioufly adapts all things to the pur- 
pofes for which they are intended, with 
fuch a juft degree of cohefion as retains them 
in that ftatc till the proper feafon of ger- 
mination 5 for if they were of a more lax 
conftitution, they would too foon diflblve 
like the other tender annual parts of plants : 
And if they were more firmly connefted, a$ 
in the heart of Oak, they muft neceflarily 
have been many years in germinating; tho’ 
fuppled with moifture and warmth. 
When a Seed is fown in the ground, in 
a few days it imbibes fo much moifture, as 
to fwell with very great force j as we fee 
in the Experiment on Peafe in an iron pot, 
this forcible fwelling of the lobes of the 
Seed aVyar (Fig. 46.) does probably pro- 
trude moifture and nourifhment from the 
capillary velTels r r, which are called the 
Seed 
