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VIII. ObferVations upon the Seeds of TlantSj By 
the fame. Tranjlated by John Chamberlayne, 
Eh 
Delft In- Holland, 27. June , 172 r. 
I Have often turn’d my Thoughts to the obfer- 
ving the fb called Membranes, in which the Sub- 
fiance of Meal, or Flower, is inclofed, like little Pack- 
ets in Cells or Boxes, which is alfo the cafe of all 
kinds of Beans, Peafe, Wheat, Barley and other 
Grain. I at length, with aflonifhment, difcover’d very 
plainly, that what I call the Membranes, were endu- 
ed with an unfpeakable number of little Holes, thro’ 
which, in many places, one might perceive the 
Light ^ which Holes we muff fuppofe to be nothing 
elfe but little Velfels, which had been torn or cutoff, 
and which do partly compofe the Membranes, which I 
call Little Cells, and which partly derve for the Pro- 
duction of the Farina , of which there are an infinite 
number of Particles in a Pea or Bean \ which, as 
fmall as they are, 1 imagine that each of thofe mea- 
ly Particles receives its increafe from a little Veifel, 
which proceeds from the forefaid Cell, and that 
thofe Velfels are imperceptible through their Small- 
nefs. 
Thefe Velfels, of which the little Cells, or Cafes, do 
moftly confift, are more eafy to be difcover’d in 
Beans and Peafe, than in any fort of Legumens or 
Grains j but in Wheat the Velfels are difficultly tra- 
ced 
