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The papiha is the receptacle of th^ fructißcaf 
tions, formed from the white part oI the conip 
Clusters. From this rife numerous Filaments, 
crowned with their ring jof .antherae , every brown " 
johlt of it being one, .Thefe jbints burii. in water, 
as ihei partädes of farina always do; but the cen- 
•tral part iis in each a dlngle -feed., The mirade 
is the fituation; infteat being lodged in .a .capfule 
it is fixed to the complicated anthera, and con» 
itain€d:-'Wäth da ij:, aad.wben ih? farina hurft, it 
'jikewcs: immediate impregnation. . • ,i 
' (»Thus the .ptocefs of hature in the fern is tlxe 
,fame,.'as in all othpr piants. What we;call the 
feed, -is a ipart, or . cQatijiuation of 'the .central 
-ftibftiince of the ftalk, which,, ,when it has recei- 
ved from the .burfting .farina the rudiinent of ja 
new plant, ripens, defends it, falls, and bur- 
fting by the warmth. iand 'moifture of the earth, 
grows* ■ 
The feed is at firft an eropty membranaceous 
fbell, iwhen the anthera has burft, it app^ars full 
,»nd ■■yQUowifh> and then being opened, vv® 
d e e 
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