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Teh. 4.18. 
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Jabs 4s f.17 
Tab. 4. f.18. 
An Account 
of the Gene- 
ration of the 
Seed. 
The Anatomy Book {. 
16. §. The Concave of this Membrane is filled with a moft tranfpa- 
rent Liquor, out of which the Seed is formed 5 asin cutting a petite 
and. Jnfant-Bean, may be feen; and yet better ina young Waluut. In 
Beans 1 have obferved it to turn, upon boyling, into a tender white 
Coagulum. 
17. §. Through this Membrane, the Lignous Body or Seed-Bran- 
ches diftributed in the inner Coat, at laft fhoot downright two flen- 
der Fibres, like two Navel-ffrings, one into each Lobe of the Bean. 
The places where the faid Fibres {hoot into the Lobes, are near the 
Bafis of the Radicle; and by their Blackifhne/? well enough remark’d: 
but the Frbers themfelves are fo very fmall, as fcarcely to be difcern’d. 
Yet in a Lupine, of the larger kind, both the places where the Navel- 
Fibres thoot intothe Lobes ( which here from the Bafis of the Radicle 
is more remote ) and the Fibres themfelves, are fairly vifible. For 
the Seed-Branch, upon its entrance into the Coat of the Lupine, is pre- 
fently divided into two main Branches, and thofe two into other lef; 
whereof fome underly, others aloft, run along theCoat, and towards 
its other end meet and are inoculated: where about, two oppofite, 
fhallow, round, and moft minute Cavities, anfwerable to two Specks of 
a Cartilaginous glofs, one in either Lobe, may be obferved; which 
Specks are the ends of the faid Navel-Fibres, upon the ripening of the 
Seed there broken off. Thefe Fibres from the Saperficies of each Lobe, 
defcend a little way dire@ly down: prefently, each is divided into 
two Branches, one diftributed into the Lobes, the other into the Ra- 
dicle and Plume, inthe manner as in the Firft Chapter is defcribed. 
And thus far the Hiftory. I thall now only with a brief account of the 
Generation of the Seed, as hereupon dependent , conclude this Dit 
courte: 
18. §. LET US fay then,that the Szp having in the Root,Trunk and’ 
Leaves, pafled divers Concoifions and Separations, in the manner as they 
are faid to be perform‘d therein “tis now at laft, in fome good ma- 
turity, advanced towards the Seed. 
19. g. The more copious and cruder part hereof is again fepara- 
ted by a free reception into the Fra, or other Part analogous to it : 
being either fufficiently ampleto containit, or at leaft Jaxe enough for 
its tranfpiration, and fo its due difcharge. The more Effential part is 
into the Seed-Branch or Branches entertian'd. Which, becaufe they are 
evermore of a very confiderable length, and of aConftitution very fine, 
the faid Sap thusbecomes in its Current therein as in the Spermatick 
Veffels, fill more mature. 
20. § In this mature eftate, from the Seed-Branch into the Coats 
of the seed, as into the Womb, “tis next delivered up. The meaner 
part hereof again, to the Outer, as Aliment good enough, is fupplied. 
he finer part is tranfmitted to the Izmer; which being, as is faid, a 
Parenechymous and more {patious Body, the Sap therefore is not herein, 
asin the Outer, a meer Aliment 5 but in order to its being, by Fermen- 
tation, farther prepared. 
21. §. Yet the Outer Coat, being on the contray hard and denfe ; 
for that reafon, as it admitteth not the Fermentation of the Sap fo well 
within it felf ; fo dothit the more promote and favour it in the Inner; 
being Bounds both to it and its sap; and alfo quickneth the procefs of 

the whole Work in the formation of the seed. 
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