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ced in the Cells, and I have been obliged to make 
very many Obfervations and Experiments, before I 
could fully fatisfy my felf, that I faw the torn or 
broken V eile i s • the Reafon of which is, that the Jit- 
c wu S> which the Cells or Skins of the Grains 
ot Wheat are -compofed, are exceeding thin and 
brittle. 
Moreover, J have found, upon obferving the Vef- 
fels, of which the Cells are compofed, that feveral 
of the Globules in Wheat were broken in pieces in 
the Operation, and that in one of thofe (ingle Globu- 
les, there were other fmall Globules enclosed. 
I have likewife obferved that the Membranes, or 
little Cells, in Barley, in which the Globules, or 
Parcels of the IVIeal are Ihut up, and receive their 
increafe, are thicker and ftronger than thofe of 
Wheat . 
Although I conclude, that almoft all Seeds and 
Grains, as well as their Membranes, or Skins, are of 
one and the fame Texture and Configuration, yet for 
Experiment fake, I took a large Almond \ and cut off 
feveral thin Slices from it, and dug out of thofe Sli- 
ces, as well as I could, the Subftance that lay in the 
little Cells, and viewing them, as nicely as poflible 
with a Microfcope, I obferved that thofe Cells in 
which the Oyl of the faid Almond was for the mod 
part contain’d, confined alfo of nothing but little 
Veffels. 
My Intentions were indeed, if it had been practi- 
cable, to view the fmaller forts of Seeds, in order to 
find out, whether the little Cells, in which the fa . 
nnaceous matter might lie, were likewife compofed 
of lmall Veffels • but 1 changed my mind, believing 
** * that 
