2 $ 6 Of the Fruit . 
Fig. 533. reprefents the piftil and blade, proper to each 
leaf in the flower of chicory. 
Fig. 538. reprefents one of the flowers in the bud of 
mezeron perfectly formed in all its parts the year before 
it appears, but differs in fhape as a foetus doth when 
newly formed. 
Fig. <539. fnews the fame flower cut open, wherein may 
be feen the fpermatic thsecae and the uterus. 
Of the fruit of an apple, lemon, cucumber, 
and pear, 
T H E general compofition of all fruit is one, that is, 
their effential parts are in all the fame, and but a 
continuation of thofe which have been already obferved 
in the other parts of a plant. Yet from the different con¬ 
stitutions and tin&ures of thofe parts, the feveral varieties 
in fruits proceed. 
An apple confifts of a fkin, parenchyma, veifels and 
core; the parenchyma or pulp is the fame with that of 
the bark of the tree, as is apparent not only from the 
vifible continuation thereof, from the one through the 
Stalk into the other, but alfo from their ftrudture, being 
both compofed of bladders, with this difference, that- 
whereas in the bark they are very fmall and fpherical (as 
may be plainly feen when viewed through the micro-* 
fcope) here they are oblong and very large, in propor¬ 
tion to the fize and tenderrjefs of the fruit, being all uni¬ 
formly fa-etched out by the arching of the veifels, from 
the core towards the circumference of the apple. 
The veffels, as in the other parts of a plant, are fucci- 
forous, and for air, both the branches of the former and 
the Angle veifels of the latter are extremely fmall, running 
every where together; not collateral, as veins and ar¬ 
teries do in animals, but the latter fheathed in the former. 
