39 6 Seed of the Lime Tree, 
running up the Infide of the Shell, and ap¬ 
pearing as fig . 2, Thefe Pods when taken 
out of the Shell appear as fig, 3. 
As the Seed advances in Maturity this 
white Juice grows harder/till it is quite ripe, 
and fome one of thefe Pods has robbed the 
reft of Nourifhment, by taking place within 
the Kernel, where it expands and excludes 
the reft, which will now be found flicking 
to the outward Cover of the Kernel dried to a 
brown Colour, with their Fibres embracing 
the Kernel, fervingonly as Cords to keep the 
Nourifhment of their more fortunate Brother 
together, and appearing as fig, 5. So that if 
we follow the Opinion of Swammerdam , and 
Voltaire in his Metaphyfics of Sir Ifaac New -■ 
ton , page 54 of the Englifh Translation, that 
we fee in Things a Difenvellopement only , here 
the Author of Nature has provided in one 
Seed fix Vermiculi, one of which alone is to 
become a Nympha Plant: for I never met 
with any Seed which contained more than 
one young Plant, in that State, which under 
Voltaire s Authority, I may venture to call 
the Nympha State, 
When the Seed is come to a fufftcient 
Confidence, and ready to drop from the Tree, 
if it be opened it will appear as fig, 4 : the 
Infide filled with a white fhining Subftance 
inclofing a deep green Plant like a Flower, 
which arifes by a fmall Fibre from that Part 
of the Seed to which the Stalk adhered, and 
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