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M. >De JuJfi€H\ Obfervations about the 
Kernels are thefe : ‘ In each of the inner 
' Coats is contain’d a callous oval Seed, 
‘ arched on the back Side, and flat on the 
‘ other, in the Middle of which is a pretty 
‘ deep SulcHS running thro’ its wholeLength. 
‘ Sometimes one of thefe Seeds proves a- 
‘ bortive, and then the other grows com- 
< monly bigger than it would otherwife 
‘ have been ; both Sides of it become more 
‘ convex, and it fills up the whole Cavity 
‘ of the Fruit. 
Monf. La Roejtte has added fome new 
Obfervations flill, concerning the Progrefs 
or gradual Formation of thefe Kernels t 
‘ Under the Pulp, fays he, lies the Bean or 
‘ Crain which we call Coffee ; and even 
‘ when the Fruit has arriv’d at its full 
‘ Bignefs the Bean is extremely tender, and 
‘ of a difagreeable Tafle; but as the Fruk 
« ripenss itacquiresby degrees a little more 
* Solidity ; and by the time that the Pulp 
‘ is nearly dried up, the Bean is become 
‘ pretty hard, and of a light green Colour, 
‘ fwimming in a thick brown and bitter 
‘ Liquor. 
rells us, that ‘ what is call’d Cof- 
‘ fee, is nothing but the Kernel? of certain 
* fmall Nuts, confifting of two Parts, like 
‘ Beans, arch’d on the upper Side, flat and 
* furrow’d on the other ; of a dark yellow 
‘ Colour, mealy Tafte, and Smell like that 
* of burnt Beans. It is Pity this Author 
did not add, that it was the Smell of roaft- 
ed Coffee he meant, and then the Compa- 
rifon would not be amifs; neither are thefe 
two much diflPerent in Virtues, if we may 
believe the learned Doftor Cheyne, 
ART. III. 
The Seminal Plants or true Coffee Seed. 
• ^ heard from Dr. Gre^y that the main Body of the 
^ V Kernel delcrib’d in the lafl: Article, is not the true Seed, but 
only a Vitellum or Body analogous thereto; which he fbmetimes 
likewife calls the bulky or cartilaginous Cover of the Seed. As 
he is the only Author who has obferv’d this Difference, fo none 
but he has defcrib’d what the true Seed, as diflinguilh’d from the 
Vitellum, really is. ^ The Foetus, or true Seed in the Coffee Ber- 
ry, fays he, lies in the inner or cartilaginous Cover, where one 
‘ would not expe( 5 l to find it, near the Top or Surface of the 
^ Back. The Lobes of the Seed are vein’d like two very minute 
^ Leaves, and join’d to a long Root like a Stalk, the End of 
‘ which comes juft to the Bottom of the Cover, ready for its 
^ Exit into the Ground. ’ All this he has exprefs’d by five Figures 
in Tah. 77. of his Anatomy of Plants-, whereof the firft exhibits 
the hilly or furrow’d Side of the Coffee Berrys the fecond, the 
Back j the third, the Back par’d a little, fo as that the true Seed 
may appear fitu-, the fourth, reprefents the true Seed taken out 
of the Kernel , and the fifth Ihews it very much magnify’d. 
This is the Account which Dr. Grenu has given us of the true 
Seed, (or, as it is call’d by Malpighi, and otlaers fince his Time, 
the Seminal Plant) of the Coffee Fruit ; and whoever is acquainted 
with Dr. Grenjo’s ''Writings, knows, that according to him, in 
every Seminal Plant may be diftinguifh’d the Radicle, Lobes and 
Plume. This Remark was neceffiry in order to the underftand- 
