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11 g. Of this Inner Coat it is very obfervable, That allthough 
when the Seed is grown old and dry, ‘tis fhrunk up, and in moft Seeds; 
{0 far, as {carcely tobe difcern’d 5 yet in its firft and juvenile Conftitu- 
tion, it is a very Spongy and Sappy body ; and is then likewife (as the 
Womb in a Pregnant Azimal )in proportion, very thick and bulky. 
In a Beam, even as.one-of the Lobes it felf: And ina Plum or Apricot, 
[think I may fafely fay, halfan hundred times thicker than afterwards, 
when it is dried and fhrunk up, and can fcarcely be diftinguifhed 
from the upper Coz#. Upon which Accounts it is, in thiseftate a true 
and fair Parenchyma. »The Delineation hereof, See in the Figures be- 
longing to the Fourth aart of the Fourth Baok. 
12. §. In this Inner Coat in a Bean, the Lignous. Body or Seed- 
Branch is diftributed : Sometimes, as in Frrevch-Beans, throughout the 
whole. Coat ; as it isin a Leaf. In the Great Garden-Bean,upon its firft 
entrance, it is bipartite, and fo in fmall Braxches runs along the Circum- 
ference of the Coat, all meeting and making a kind of Reticulation againft 
the Belly of the Beav. In the fame manner ithe main Branches in the 
outer Coat of a Kernel, circling themfelves on both hands from the 4 
place of their firft entrance, at laft meet, and mutually inofculate 5 
as the Veins in the Kidneys ofa Man or any Quadrupedes Or the Carotick 
Arteries in the Braine. 
13. §. So that all the Parts of a Vegetable, the Root, Trunk, Branch, 
Leaf, Flower, Fruit and Seed, are {till made up of Tivo Subftantially 
different Bodies. 
14, g. Andas every Part hath Tivo, fo the whole Vegerable taken 
together, isa compofition of Two only, and no more: All properly 
Woody Parts, Strings and Fibers, are Oxe Body : All fimple sarques, 
Piths, Parenchyma’s and Pulps, and asto their fubftantial Nature, Pills 
and Skins likewife, all but Oxe Body: the feveral Parts of a Vegetable 
all differing from each other, only by the various Proportions and 
Mixtures, and variated Pores and structure of thefe Tmo Bodies. What 
from thefe two general Obfervations might reafonably be inferr’d, I 
fhall not now mention. 
¥5. §. The Fourth or Innermoft Cover we miay call the Secon- 
dine, The fight of which,by cutting off the Coats of an Infant-Bean,at 
the Cone thereof, in very thin Slices, and with great Caution, may 
be obtain'd. While unbroken, ‘tis tranfparent 5 being torn and taken 
off,, it gathers up into the likenef§ ofa Jelly, or that we call the Tredle 
of an Egg, when rear-boyl’d. This Membrance in larger or elder 
Beans, is not to be found diftin&. But ( as far as our Enquiries yet dif- 
cover) it may in moft other Seeds, even full grown,be diftinély feen 5 as 
in thofe of Cucussber, Colocynthis, Burdock , Carthamum,Grommel, Endive, 
Mallows, &c. Tis ufually fo very thin, as in the above-nam'd, a8 Tb, 4. f.16. 
very difficultly to be difcover’d. But infome Kernels, as of Apricots, 
‘cis very thick 5 andmoft remarquably fuch, in fome other Seeds. That 
all thefe have the Analogy of one and the fame Cover; which I call the 
Secondine, is moft probably argu’d from their alike Natures 5 being all 
ofthem plain fimple Membranes, with not the leaft Fzbre of the ' Lig- 
nous Body or Seed Brauch, vifibly diftributed in them : As alfo from their 
Texture, which isin all of them more clofe, See this Part in Tab. 4. As 
alfo amongft the Figures belonging to the Fourth Bart of the Fourth 
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