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Tab. 4. f.15. 
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5. §. IN A PLUM (to which the Cherry, Apricot, Peach, Wal- 
nut, &c. ought to be referr’d) there are four diftin& Parts, the Pilling, 
the Parenchyma, Branchery and Stone. The Pilling and Parenchyma are, 
as to their Original, with thof of an Apple or Pear, both alike. As 
likewife the Bruchery but differently ramified. In Plums (1 fap- 
pofe all) there are five main Out-Branches, which run along the Sure 
face of the Stone from the Bafis to the point thereof, four of them by 
one Ridge, and one by the other oppolite to it. In an Apricot there is 
the fame number, but the fingle Brazch runsnot upon the Surface, but 
through the Body of the Stowe. There are likewife two or three 
fimaller Branches, which run in like manner under the other Ridge for 
fome fpace, and then advancing into the Parexchyma, therein difperfe 
themfelves,: Thefe latter fort in Peaches are numerous throughout. 
6. §. But notwithftanding the different difpofition of the Brazches 
ofthe Fruits aforefaid 5 yet is there one Branch difpos'd in one and 
the fame manner in them all. The entrance hereof into the Stove is at 
its Bafis; from whence running through its Body, and ftill inclining 
or arching it {elf towards its Concave, is at laft, about its Cove, there- 
into emergent, where the Coats of the Seed are appendent to it. Of 
the Seed-Branch ‘tis therefore obfrvable that after its entrance in: 
to the Fruit, “tis always prolonged therein to a confiderable length; 
as is {een not only in Apples, &c. where the Seed ftands a good diftance 
from the Stalks but’ in Plums likewife, where it ftands very near it 5 
in that here the Seed-Branch, as is {aid, never {trikes through the stoxe 
into the Coats of the Seed direGly, but runs through a Chanel cut in 
the Stoze, till it iffues, near the Cove, into the Concave thereof. 
7. §. The Stone though it feem a fimple Body, yet it is compoun- 
ded of different ones. The Inner Part thereof, as it is by far the thin- 
neft, fo is ic the moft denfé, white, fmooth and fimple. “The Original 
is from the Pith; difficult, but: curious to obferve: For the Seed- 
Branch, not ftriking direGly and immediately quite through the 
Bafis of the Stone, but in the manner as is above defcribed, carries a 
confiderable Part of the Pith, now gather’d round about it, as its Pa- 
renchyma, along with it felf ; which upon its entrance into the concave 
of the Stoze about its farther end, is there in part fpread all over it, as 
the Lining thereof: The outer and very much thicker Part, confift- 
eth partly of the like Precipitations or concrete Particles, asina Pears 
being gathered here much more clofély, not only to a Contiguity, but 
a Coalztion into one entire Stone 5 as we {ee in Pears themfelves, efpeci- 
ally towards the Cork , they gather into the like Stonine@; or as a 
Stone, Mineral, or Animal, is oftentimes the produc of accumulated 
Gravel. But as the Parenchyma is mixed with the Concretions in the 
Calculary, fo is it alfo, though not vifibly, with thefe in the stoze, 
the ground of the Stone being indeed a perfeét Parenchyma 5 but by 
the faid Concretions fo far alter’d, as to become dry, hard and un- 
diftinguifhable from them. All which Particulars » are obfervable 
only i the feveral degrees of Growth in the young Fruit. ‘And are 
reprefented in Tab. 4. But efpecially by the feveral Figures belonging 
to the Third and Fourth \arts of the Fourth Wook. 
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