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oval in fpeculum veneris, tithymalus; feini-globular in 
coriander, femi-oval in anife, fennel, pirimidal in gera¬ 
nium, althaeaefol, with many other differences. 
Sometimes gliftering, as in Venus looking-glafs, rough 
caff in catanance, ftudded in behen, blataria; favous in 
papaver, antirrhinum, lepidum, annum, alcea-veficaria, 
hyofcyamus and many more, u before the feeds have lain 
long by ; pounced in phalangium cretae, lithofpermum ; 
ramified in pentaphyllum fragiferum erectum majus, re- 
fembling the fibres of the ears of the heart. 
All feeds have their outer coats open, as in beans and 
pulfe, as before fhewn, or elfe by breaking off the feed 
from its peduncle or ftool, as in cucumber, chicory, &c. 
or by the paffage of a branch or branches, not only into 
the concave near the cone or top of the feed, but through 
the cone itfelf. 
The fourth or inmoft cover, is called the fecondine, a 
fight of which may be obtained by cutting off the coats 
of an infant bean in very thin flices; at the cone thereof, 
if not broke, it is tranfparent; if torn, it gathers up into 
the likenefs of a jelly. In large old beans it is not to be 
diftindlJy feen, but in moft feeds it may, even when full 
grown, as in cucumber, colocynthis, burdock, cartha- 
mum, gromwell, endive, mallows, See. though in thefe 
it is generally thin and difficult to be difeovered, yet in 
fome kernels, as apricocks, it is very thick, and remark¬ 
ably fo in fomc other feeds. 
The concave of this membrane is filled with a moft 
tranfparent liquor, out of which the feed is formed, as ap¬ 
pears on cutting an infant bean, or better in a young 
walnut. *' 
Through this membrane, the lignous body, or feed- 
branches, in the inner coat, (hoot down in two flender 
P 4 fibres* 
“ Grew. An. Plants, p. 45. 
