The Pofition of it is not cxadly according to the Icnth of the 
Kernel, or parallel to the longeft Diameter of it, but oblique i it 
being all on one fide of the Rima, as may be feen by Candle-light, 
even with the naked Eye, in an intirc macerated Kernel. 
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It is not however always on the fame fide, but fometimes on the 
right, fometimes on the Icftj and yet this Pofition is no ways ca- 
fual, but regulated by the Rowl or Fold of the Berry j that is, the 
Seminal Plant lies always on that fide of the Su/ais to which the 
Procefs is fixed. ^ 
The Seminal Plant being taken out of the Kernel, we may obferve 
the Figure of it to be exactly that of the Ace of Spades, only that 
the Radicle is longer in proportion to the Lobes, 
When it is frefii taken out, the Colour of it is lighter than that 
of the reft of the Kernel. 
The Radicle or little Root, as far as I can perceive, is exaiftly 
round, and runs tapering from one end to the other, that to which 
the Lobes adhere being fmalleft, as is exprefled in one of Dr. Greisj’5 
Figures. 
The Lobes or Leaves may eafily be feperated from one another^ 
all the way to their infertion into the Radicle, but nothing like a 
Plume is difcerniblc betwixt them. 
Thus far concerning the Seminal Plant of the Coffee Fruit. I 
have only further to remark, that the contrivance of the fituation 
of it, and indeed of the ftrudure of the whole Kernel, is very par- 
ticular. The extremity of the Radicle is placed in the wcakeft part 
of the whole Kernel, and confequently finds the eafieft Paflage 
pofliblc into the Ground ; The two Lamellte are here, as it were, 
only tucked in, and fo, fmall Rimo’ or Chinks muft neceflarily be 
left, which in dried Kernels are oftentimes increafed to very fenfi- 
ble Clifts. Befides, upon the leaft fwelling of the Kernel in the 
Ground, thefe Folds muft extend themfeives, and by this means 
likcwife, favour the exit of the Radicle. 
Again, by the Radicle and tender Lobes being placed obliquely,’ 
and always on that fide to which the Procefs is fixed, they lie in 
the moft fecure part of the whole Kernel, which would have been 
Otherwife, had they lain ftreight, and fo over the Sulcus. 
The Kernel its felf is rolled up in the manner we fee it, not on- 
ly for the fecurity of the Seminal Plant, but alfo that it may unfold 
by more eafy Degrees, according as the Lobes and Rlume arc rea- 
dy to expand thcmfclv«. The firft of thefe Ends accounts likcwife 
