2.3 2 Of Vegetables. 
young plant, whilft it lies involved in the kernels ma¬ 
trix, whence could they afterwards proceed ? Fig. 452. 
reprefents part of the fame firing, cut a-crofs, and greatly 
magnified, which at K L M N, has abundance of ex¬ 
ceeding fmall veffels, but very difficult to be perceived. 
About I HN M, they grow larger, and confequently are 
more vifible. B, fig. 453. reprefents a feed divefted of 
its membranes, which feemed to have but one plant 
within it, though often there are two, and fometimes three 
difiindt feeds with their plants contain’d under the mem¬ 
brane of an orange kernel \ thefe feeds, with their inclofed 
plants, are eafily divided into two lobes ; which are 
framed by nature to nourifh the tender plant within, till 
it is able to (land alone, and draw its fubfifrence from the 
earth aboutit; having fplit the feed into two parts, they 
are reprefented by C and D, fig. 453. in the firft, is part 
of the plant, which would have become a tree, and is no 
bigger than a grain of fand to the naked eye. The coun¬ 
terpart of the raid kernel is reprefented at D, with the 
concave, in which part of the plant lay. Fig. 454. re¬ 
prefents the laft mention’d plant, as it appear’d in the mi- 
crofcope, whereof Q_L M is partly that which nature 
intends for the body and root of the tree; MNGPQ^ 
the leaves with which the young plant is already provided, 
NOP that part of the leaves which is foprewhat pro¬ 
tuberant, by reafon of the fmall inclofed leaves M N, 
and P Qg fhew the two Tides of the plant torn off from 
the kernel, to which it was united, and from which it re¬ 
ceived its nourifhment. Fig. 455. S T V, fhews the 
fame plant a little turned about before the microfcope, in 
order to reprefent the two largeft leaves, between which, 
according to all appearance, a great many fmall ones are 
fliut up. If the leaves be cut a-crofs, fome of the included 
ones may fometimes be difeerned, and on cutting that 
part 
