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Of the Seminal Plant, or True Seed of the 
Coffee Fruit. 
W E have heard from Dr. Grew^ that the main body of the 
Kernel, deferibed in the laft Article, is not the true Seed, 
but only a Vitellum^ or Body analagous thereunto, which he fome- 
timc 3 likewife calls the "bulky or Cartilaginous Cover of the Seed. 
As he is the only Author who has obferved this Difference, fo 
no body but himfclf has deferibed v/hat the true Seed, as diftinguifh- 
ed from the Vitellum, really is. The F^fus, or true Seed in the 
Coffee Berry, fays he, lies in the inner or Cartilaginous Cover, where 
one would not expeft to find it, near the Top or Surface of the 
Back. The Lobes of the Seed are veined like two very minute Leaves, 
and joyned 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 exp relied by five Figures in 7a{^. 77 * of his Ana- 
tomy ofFlantsi whereof the firft exhibites the belly or furrowed fide 
of the Coffee Berry i the fecond, the Back 5 the third, the Back 
pared a little, fo as that the true Seed may appear in Jitu ; The 
fourth reprefents the true Seed taken out of the Kernel, and the 
fifth fhows it very much magnified. 
This is the Account Dr. Grew has given us of the true Seed, or 
as it is called by Malpighi and others fince his time, the Seminal Flant 
of the Coffee Fruit; and whoever is acquainted with Dr. Grew’s 
Writings, knows that according to him, in every feminal Plant 
there is to be diftinguifhed the Radicle., Lobes, and Flume. This 
Remark was neceffary, in order to the underftanding of fome Terms 
which I fhall be obliged to make ufe of in explaining what further 
Obfervations I have made upon this Head, both with refped to the 
Situation and Strudure of the Seminal Plant. 
It lies between the two Lamella of the Vitellum or Body juft 
now deferibed, in a Bed exadly fitted to it; the Radicle always ter- 
minating at the extremity of the Sulcus, which in an intire Kernel, 
may be difeovered by a round Speck, of a different Colour from 
the reft of the Surface. 
As the back of the Kernel is convex, the Seminal Plant, to ac- 
commodate its felf to that Figure, is likewife bent upwards, and fo 
lies crooked. 
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