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ing of fome Terms which I lliall be obliged to make ufe of in 
explaining what farther Oblervations I have made, both concern- 
ing the Situation and Structure of the Seminal Plant. 
It lies between the two LamelU of the Vitellum or Body juO; 
now defcrib’d, in a Bed exadly fitted to it, the Radicle always 
terminating at the Extremity of the Sulcus, which in an entire 
Kernel may be dilcover’d by a round Speck, of a different Co- 
lour from the reft of the Surface. As the Back of the Kernel is 
convex, the Seminal Plant, to accommodate it felf to that Figure, 
is likewife bent upwards, and fo lies crooked. The Pofition of 
it is not exadtly according to the Length of the Kernel, or paral- 
lel to the longed Diameter of it, but oblicjue j it being all on 
one Side of the Rima ^as may be feen by Candle-light, even with 
the naked Eye) in an entire macerated Kernel. It is not, how- 
ever, always on the fame Side, but fometimes on the right, fome- 
times on the left ; and yet this Pofition is no ways cafual, but 
regulated by the Rowl or Fold of the Berry ,• that is, the Seminal 
Plant lies always on that Side of the Sulcus to which the Procefs 
is fix’d. 
when it is carefully taken out of the Kernel, the Figure of it 
refembles nothing fo much as the Ace of Spades in Cards, only 
the Radicle is longer in proportion to the Lobes, than the Han- 
dle of that Spade is commonly made. The Colour of it appears 
then liehter than that of the Kernel. And the Radicle or little 
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Root, as far as I can perceive, is exa(5lly round, and runs taper- 
ing from one End to the other j that to which the Lobes ad- 
here being fmalleft, as is well exprefs’d in one of Dr. Grenjj’s Fi- 
gures. The Lobes or Leaves may eafily be feparated from one 
another all the Way to their Infertion into the Radicle j but no- 
thing like a Plume is difcernible betwixt them. 
1 have only further to remark, that in the Situation of this 
Seminal Plant, as well as in the whole Structure of the Kernel, 
the Wildoni and Contrivance of Nature is very dilcernible. The 
Extremity of the Radicle is placed in the vveakefi: Part of the whole 
Kernel, and confequently finds the eafieft Paflage pofiible into the 
Ground 5 the two LamelU are there, as it were, only tuck’d in j 
and thus finall Rimce or Chinks mull neceffarily be left, which in 
dry’d Kernels we lee oftentimes increas’d to very fenfible Clefts: 
Befides, upon the lead Swelling of the Kernel in the Ground, 
thele Folds mud extend themfelves, and by this means likewife 
favour the Exit of the Radicle. Again, by the oblique Situation 
of the whole Seminal Plant, and always on that Side to which 
the Procefs is fix’d, they lie in the mod (ecure Part of the whole 
O Kernel, 
