allow two Kernels to each Fruit with- 
out Exception. There is indeed foine 
Reafon to imagine, that /. B. has de- 
fcribed a fingle Berry only, as we lhall 
fee prefently ', Dr. Rohinfon fays cx- 
prefsly that there are generally, in e- 
Very Shell or Husk, two Kernels, and 
fometimes only one *, and the Author of 
Tournefort’s Pofthumous Tueatife, that 
there is generally but one Kernel, and 
fometimes two. The firft is true with 
Refpeft to all the Coffee Fruit the 
other with Refpeft to thofe that come 
to us intire. 
The Coverings of the Coffee Fruit. 
I N an intire Coffee Fruit wc may confider the Involucra or Co- 
verings, and Nuclei or Kernels, which are wrapt up and inclo- 
fed by them. 
Tiie number of the Involucra is always Three j one cbmmon to 
both Kernels, and two proper to each of them. 
The common or outcfmoft Covering is, as we fliall hear prefent- 
ly from thofe who have examined the frefh Fruit, only the green 
or reddifh, foft pulpy Subllancc or ‘Pericarpium, hardened and dri- 
ed up, as the Fruit ripens. In this the Seed was formed, and it 
was then truly and properly the Seed Veffel or Uterus^ zs Malpighi 
loves to talk. 
In Tome Berries it is very much fhrivel’d, wrinkly, uneven, and 
as it were furrowed ; of a blackifh or dark brown Colour. In others, 
efpecially the double Berries, it is fmoother, and of a lighter fhining 
Brown, but of different Degrees. 
The upper extremity of this Covering, or that which is oppofTte 
to the Foot Stalk (fome part of which I have often found flicking 
to it) terminates in an UmbilicuSy as it is called by P>e JuJJieUy 
which looks as if a fmall circular Impreflion had been made upon 
it, with a pretty deep Hole in the Centre thereof. 
Upon boiling or long fleeping in Water, this Coat becomes fo 
foft, that it may eafily be ferap’d off, but if macerated only a little 
while, it grows thick, and may be taken off quite, if cut into two 
equal Parts : And by fo doing, I have obferved that in many Berries 
it is confiderably thicker near the Umbilicus than in any other 
Part. 
I have already obferved that this Coat is formed of the Seed 
Veffel of the Flower, and I can certainly affirm, that that is always 
Multicapfular, being divided generally into two Cells or Locula- 
menta, as Botanifts exprefs it, and fometimes, (as far as I can judge. 
