2 r 4 Of Vegetables, 
fame with that of the pulp, yet in the gourd feed the 
main branches with their feveral ramifications appear im¬ 
mediately on feparating the lobes. 
The parenchyma of the lobes is a kind of meal inter¬ 
mingled with a nutritious juice, or fap of the earth, form¬ 
ing a kind of pap or lafteous fubftance, which being fil¬ 
tered through the feveral branchings of the feminal root, 
are conveyed through the two fmall tubes a and b, fig. 
430. into the bud, which is gradually replenifhed there¬ 
with. When thefe feminal roots have communicated all 
the nourifhment of the lobes to the young plant, they 
begin to wither; together with the fkin that covers them 5 
the Item or radicle then alfo begins to take root in the 
ground for its future fubfiftance. 
The coats of the feeds. 
H O W it was in its ftate of vegetation hath juft been 
ftiewn; it remains then to inquire into its ftate of 
generation; for what in the other ftate was not apparent, 
or intelligible, will in this occur ; and here alfo we fhall 
find a large field for the employment of the microfcope. 
The two general parts of the feed are its covers and 
body. The covers in this ftate are ufually four; the 
©utermoft, which is called the cafe, and is of various 
forms, fometimes a pouch, as in nafturtium, cochlearia, 
&c. a cod, as all pulfe; fometimes parted as forrel, knotted 
grafs, &c. The two next are properly the coats, in a 
bean efpecially, and the like; from whence the denomi ¬ 
nation may run to the correfponding covers of other 
feeds 5 their figures are fometimes kidney’d as alcea, 
behen, poppy; triangular, as polygonatum, forrel, &c. 
fphericallv triangular, as mentha, melifta, &c. circular, 
in leucoium, amaranthus 3 globular in. napus, afperula; 
oval 
