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Book I. of Plants. 45 
Pith within it; and the Seed-Branch likewife included, not meerly 
in the Body of the Shell, as ina Plu, but within the Pith it el£ 
So neceffary is this defign, that what the Hen by Incubation or 
Hovering, is to the Egg or Chick 5 that the whole Fruit, b : 
henfion , "is to the Seed. 4 : wit, by compre 


CHAP. VIL 
Of the SEED, in its State of Generation. 


§ the Original, fo the Ultimate end and PerfeGtion 
of Vegetation is the Seed. How it is the former, and 
in its {tate apt for Vegetation,hath already been een. 
How the latter, and in its ftate of Generation, we 
fhal} now laftly enquire. In doing which, what in 
the other ftate, was either not diftin@ly exiftent,or 
&§ not fo apparent, or not fo intelligible, will occur. 
2. §. The two general Parts of the Seed are its 
Covers and Body. The Covers inthis eftate are ufually Four. The out- 
moft, we may call the Café. “Tis of a very variousform 5 fometimes a 
Pouch, as in Nafturtinm, Cochlearia 5 aCod, as in all Pulfe, Galega ; 
fometimes not entire, but parted, or otherwife open, as in Sorrel, 
Kxotgrafs, withmany other forms: I think alwaies more heteroge- 
neous to that of the seed, by which it differs from the proper Coats. 
To this the Caps of Nuts, and the Pareschyma’s of other Fruits are 
analogous. : 
3. §- The two next are properly the Coats. Ina Bea efpecially, 
and the like; from whence; to avoyd Confufion, the denommation 
may run common to the refponding Covers of other Seeds. ‘The Co- 
lour of the outer, is of all degrees,from White to the Blacknefs of Jett. 
It’s Figure fometimes Kidney’d, as in Alcea, ‘Behen, Poppy 3 Triangu- 
lar, asin Polygonatum, sorrel 5 Spherically triangular, in Mentha,Me- 
liz; Circular, in Lencoium, Amaranthus 3 Globular, in Napus, Afpe- 
rula 5 Oval, in Speculum Veneris, Tithymalus 5 half Globe, in Coriander 5 
that which we take for ove fingle round Seed, being a Conjugation 
of two 5 half Oval, in Avife, Fennel 5 Haltal, in Laéfuea; Cylindri- 
cal, as, if Tmiftake not, in Facobea ; Pyramidal, in Geranium Althee 
ol. with many other differences. But the Perfection of one or two 
of the faid Figures lieth in the Café. So that, as all Lizes and Proporti- 
ons are in the Leafand Flower ; fo all Regular solids in the Seed 5 or 
rather in its Covers. 
4. §. “Tis fometimes glittering, as in Speculum Veneris; Rough-caft, 
in Catanance 3 Studded, in Behew, Balttavia, Favous, im Papaver, An- 
tirrhinum, Lepidum annuum, Alcea Veficaria, Hyoftyamus, and many 
more,before the Seeds have lain long by ; Pounced, in Phalanginu Crete, 
Lithofpermum; Ramified, in Pentaphylluene fragiferum Erettum majus, 
refembling 










































