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part tranfparent; whereby the feed feems to be fometimes 
naked while it lies therein, as in almonds, cucumbers, &c. 
In meliffa, and feme other feeds, it comes finely off, on 
being foaked in warm water. 
Of the foetus, or true feed. 
MONG feeds of the thinner covers are thofe of 
La. all forts of corn and grafs, different from that of 
mod other feeds. The main body being of one entire 
piece, doubled in the form of a pair of lips. In the feeds 
of dates, and fome other like plants, that which is gene¬ 
rally called the {tone, feems indeed to be the main body 
of the feed, doubled or folded up in the fame manner as 
corn, to which that part which becomes the plant is an¬ 
nexed. In corn it is placed in the bottom of the main 
body, but here is a fmall round cavity in the middle of 
the back. 
For the moft part the main body is divided into two 
lobes, plainly to be diftinguifhed in moft kernels, and 
other large feeds, and not difficult in many leffer ones, as 
in viola-lunaris, fcabious, doves-feet, &c. if flipped out 
of their covers before they are full ripe; in hounds tongue 
they are of a circular figure; in cucumbers, oblong, with 
fome vifible branches of the feminal root, &c. 
In the foregoing feeds, the lobes lie fiat one againft 
another, but in garden raddifh they are folded up, fo as to 
receive the radicle into their bofom. In holy-oak the 
lobes are plaited over each other. In cotton feed they 
are very broad and thin, and their folds curious and very 
numerous, 
Many of the feeds, with bulky covers, are not divided 
into two lobes, being in a manner of one piece, as all' 
the bulbous kind : in fiag it is above twenty times bigger 
than 
