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refembling the Frbers of the Ears of the Heart ; fome jult Quinquenerval, 
as in Awifim, and many more, the Lignous Body being in five main Fi- 
bers branched therein. The Figures, and Surface, of Thefe, and other 
Seeds, See in the Tables belonging to the Fourth Bart ofthe Fourth 
Book. 
5. §._ The Covers of not only Quince-Seeds, and thofe of Piplium 
(more ufually taken notice of ) but thofe alfo of Horminum, Nafturtium, 
Eruca, Camelina, Ocymum, and divers others, have a Mucilage. Which, 
though it be not vifible when the Seeds are throughly dry 5 yet lying 
a while in fome warm Liquor, or only on the Tongue, it {wells more - 
or lefs, and upon them all fairly fhews it fel On that of Ocywum it 
appears grayifh; on the other, tranfparent 5 and on that of Naftur- 
étum Hortenfe very large; even emulous of the inner Pulp furround- 
ing a Goofeberry-Seed. The putting of Clary-feed into the Eye, may 
have been brought into ufe from this Mucilage, by which alone it 
may become Medicinal. And thus far’ of the Swperficies, 
6. §. The wature of the outer Coat is alfo various, Membranous, 
Cartilaginous and Stony; the like Precipitations being fometimes made 
herein, as in a Stove or Shells asin that of the Seeds of Carthamum, 
Lithofpermum and others. The Defignment hereof, being either with 
refpect to the Seed inits ftate of Generation; as where the Café is 
either wanting, or at leaft infufficient of it felf, there for its due 
protection and warmth. Or, in its ftate of Vegetation, for the better 
Fermenting of its TinG@ures and Sap, the Fermentations of fome Seeds 
not well proceeding, unlefs they lie in their Stony Casks in the Ground, 
like Bottled Liquors in Sand. 
7-§. All Seeds have their outer Covers opens either by a particu- 
lar Foramen, as in Beans, and other Pulfe, as is {aids or by the break- 
ing off of the Seed from its Peduncle or Stool, as in thofe in Cucumber, 
Cichory 5 or by the éntering and paflage of a Branch or Branches, not 
only into the Concave thereof near the Cone, but alfo through the 
Cone it felf; as in Shells and Stones. 
8. §. Forthe fake of this aperture it is, that Akerns, Nuts, Beans, 
Cucumbers, and moft other seeds, are in their formation fo placed, that 
the Radicle {till {tandeth next to it ; That So, upon Vegetation, it may 
have a free and ready paflage into the Mould. 
9. §. The Original of the outer Coat, though from Parts of the 
fame fubftantial nature, yet is differently made. Ina Plum, the seed- 
Branch which runns, asis defcribed, through the Stove, isnot naked, 
but, asisfaid, invefted with a thin Parenchyma, which it carries from 
the Stalk along with it 3 and which, by the Ramwification of the faid 
Branch within the Stone, is, in part; dilated intoaCoat. That ofa 
Bean is from the Parenchyma of the Cods the fuperficial part of which 
Parenchyma, wpon the large peduncle of the Bean becoming a thin Cz- 
ticle, and upon the Bean it {elf a Cartilaginous Coat, 
to. §. The Original of the inner Coat of the Bean is likewile from 
the inner part of the faid Parenchymas which firft is {pred into a long 
Cake, or that which with the Seed-Branch maketh the Penduncle of the 
Bean 5 under which Cake, there is ufually a black part or fpots by the 
length of which, the inner part of the Cake is next inferted into the 
our Coat, and {pred all over the Concave thereof, and fo becomes 
the inner. 
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