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thefe following new Obfervations fufficiently con- 
firm. 
1. Upon Examination of feveral Lamella, I not 
only diftin&ly obferved Seeds, of Size and Colour 
proportionable to the Maturity of the Plant, lodged 
therein, but alfo a filiquaceous Aperture, with a Row 
of Seeds ready to fall through it 5 which is a very 
evident Proof, that each diftind Chive is a Siliqua 
or Seed-vefiel. 
2. Upon Obfervation of the Filament fituated on 
the middle of the Caulis , upon which, as I before 
obferved, I at firft difcovered the Seed, I found both 
its Contexture and Situation evidently demonftrate- 
ing the End for which the wife Creator placed it 
there ; 'viz,, to intercept the Seeds in their Fall to 
the Ground ■, whereby the. Power which the Wind 
would otherwife have upon fuch minute Bodies is 
leflened, and the Seed, with little or no Diflipation, 
fecurely direded near the Stem of its Mother-Plant. 
For this Filament is indented and pappous, to catch 
and lodge the Seed as it falls from the Siliqua ; and 
is, at firft, rigid, and (landing horizontal to the 
Umbella or Head, and at right Angles with the Caulis ; 
whereby few or no Seeds can fall without being 
intercepted : But, as the Plant comes nearer to its 
Decay, this Filament relents, falls down clofe to the 
Sides of the Caulis 5 and its feveral Indentures then 
making parallel Lines with the Fibres of the Stalk, the 
Seeds are, through them, conveyed, as through little 
Duds or Chanels, to the Ground. 
'Tis further to be obferved, that this Filament is 
not of fo fucculent a Contexture as the Siliqua or 
(Seed-veffel $ fo that the Seeds, which would other- 
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