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VEGETABLE STRUCTURE.* 
Each particle of the Flefhy Subfiance of the Plant, thus feparated in 
the body of the Anthera, cloathed with a Skin from its inner Membrane, 
and covered with a little of the waxy Juice, is a globule of Farina. 
Every particle of the Flefhy Subfiance of a Plant is capable of growth into 
a whole Plant of the fame kind ; for its feveral Coats are formed from its 
own Juices, and the very organs of a Flower are its natural terminations. 
Therefore this particle, in a globule of Farina, is capable of growth into 
an entire Plant: it is tender, but it is well defended : for even in this glo- 
bule it is furrounded with wax, and covered with a Skin ; and is thence 
delivered to the Seed, where it is fafe till fown. 
Having thus cleared away all the Coats of the Winter Aconite, 
there remains a divided column of Pith, from the fummit of which grow 
four Sced-Velfels ; but flill it is not the abfolute naked Pith which rifes to 
the very fummit of this column. Where the Leaf, the Petals, the Nec- 
taria, and laflly the Filaments, have been torn off from it, its naked white 
and fpungy fubflance makes the furface ; but thefe have not reached to 
the abfolute fummit of the column. There is a fmall conic eminence, the 
head of the Receptacle, above the place where the Filaments were torn 
off, and jufl: below the bafes of the Seed-Veflels : this above has a kind of 
covering: it is a yellowifli green fubflance, and fliews itfelf even to a mo- 
derate magnifier, to be more than a mere Membrane. It is, indeed, a part 
of the Conic Cluflers of Veffels which rife within the f'lefliy Subfiance 
of the Plant. That original part terminates in the Filaments: nor is there 
any need it fhould go farther : the parts which feparating form thofe Fila- 
ments, are each of them perfedlly didindl, and one as well as another 
equally capable of a new V'^egetation. When this Flefliy Subfiance has 
terminated there in that manner, the Conic Cluflers of Veffels prefled 
clofe together, continue their courfe a little higher, and form this part, 
which is the very fummit of the Stalk. 1 his appears an arch in a per- 
pendicular fedion of the Plant ; but when cut off tranfverfely near the 
fummit, it forms a khid of dome, of a pale green fubflance, filled with 
the white Pith, and pierced with four diflindl, and not very minute, holes. 
Thro’ each of thefe rifes a column of the Pith ; which a procefs of 
the yellowifli Coat of the Crown covers, and thefe make the four greenifli 
Seed-Veffels. The Conic Cluflers are thus continued, in a fmall portion, 
to the very fummit of the growth, and principally form the Valves of the 
Sced-Veffels, which the thin Membrane, covering the Pith, lines. 
The Pith itfelf here, in its extreme growth, breaking into pieces, forms 
a kind of white filmy Bladders, with a Ipungy fubflance in them ; and into 
thefe 
