21 S' Of Vegetables . 
uppermoft falls off when the feed is ripe, and fa the wind 
fbws them. 
The feed-cafe of codded arfmat, fig. 433. neither opens 
at the top nor on the fides, but at the bottom, being cora- 
pofed of four fides; In the center of the cafe, is a column a, 
upon which the feeds hang loofely. Fram this mecha- 
iii&nt that violent ejaculation ©f the feed is intelligible, 
which is not amotion in the feeds themfelves, but con¬ 
trived by the ftrucfure of the cafe, the feeds hanging 
very loofely, not on the fideS of the cafe, but on the item 
In the center thereof, with their thickeft ends downwards, 
Handing ready for a difcharge 5 the fides of the cafe being 
lined with a ftrong membrane, they perform the office of 
fo many little bows remaining fail at the top b, are 
let off at bottom, and forcibly curl upwards and drive ail 
the feeds before them. 
Of the number and motion of feeds. 
N Ature hath procured the propagation of plants fe- 
veral ways, but chiefly by the feed; for the pro¬ 
duction of which the root, leaves, flowers and fruit do all 
officiate; and according as the plant or the feed it bears 
is more or lefs liable to be defiroyed, provifion is made 
for the propagation of either by a greater number of feeds, 
or otherwife ; for inftance, the feeds of ftrawherries being 
gathered, or eaten by vermin with the fruit, the plant 
thereof is eafily propagated by trunk roots j the white 
poppy being an annual plant is highly prolific, com¬ 
monly bearing about four mature heads, in each of 
which are at leaft ten partitions, on both fides whereof 
the feeds grow, and on one fourth part of one fide, about 
a hundred feeds, that is eight hundred on one partition, 
which multiplied by ten makes eight thoufand, and this 
multiplied 
