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that my Endeavours therein would be ineffe&ual, by 
reafon of the Smallnefs of thofe little Cells, and con- 
fequently of the VelfelS, of which thofe Cells were 
made up, though 1 do not queftion but what we dif- 
coverinthe greater Seeds, is analogous to the Struc- 
ture of the fmall ones. 
Now when 1 perceiv’d, that the before-mention’d 
little Cells proceeded from the Bark, or Skin, which 
furrounds the Kernel of the Seed, or Grain, 1 was 
thinking that, as the mealy Subftance receives its in- 
crease from the Ve/Tels, which are in the little Cells, 
and as ths Plant is formed between the Cells, du- 
ring the time that the Seed lies in the Earth, and as 
the little Orifices in the Skin of Animals and Fruits, 
are formed in order to difcharge thereby the Super- 
fluity of their Moifture, and do ihut in fuch a man- 
ner, that no Moifture, nor common Air, can get into 
the fame, as I have formerly advanced : So on the 
contrary, the Orifices of seeds are fo form’d, that 
many of their little Veffels do adrnit Moiflure to pafs 
Inwards,- and accordingly Water is driven into them 
by the prelfure of the Air, and caufes the Seed to 
fwell} upon which, a Warmth and Fermentation fuc^ 
ceeding in the Seed, it requires a greater fpace, and 
by the particular Formation of the Particles, which 
lie in the Cells, and which have derived their En- - 
creafe from the Cells, the mealy Subftance, of which 
they confift, is partly driven out of .them into the 
body of the young Plant, which by this means, en- 
creafes fo much in bulk, that the Root is nbw able to 
fupply it with Nourifhment from the Earth, at which 
time the Seed is found to.be diminiftied in its big-- 
