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Hitt. of the 
Prop.of Vege. 
Tah 3: 
The Anatomy Book I. 
which have fix, as the Ingenious Mr. Sharrock alfo obferves. The reafon 
whereof is, becaufe the Mzinz Body is not divided into Two, but Six,di- 
ftin& Lobes, as Ihave often counted. Why Radifhes feem at firft to 
have four, which yet after appear plainly two: becaufe the Lobes of the 
Seed, have both a little Indenture, and areboth plaited, one over the 
other. To which, other Inftances might be added. 
46. The ufe ofthe Diffimilar Leaves is, firft, for the protection 
of the Pluwe 5 which being but young, and fo but foft and tender, is 
provided with thefe, asa double Guard, one on either fide of it, For 
this reafon it is, that the Plume, in Corn, is trufled up within a mem- 
branous Sheath: and that ofa Bean, cooped up betwixt a pair of Sur- 
foyls: But where the Lobes rife, there the Plume hath neither of them, 
being both needlef. 
47. §. Again, fince the Plime, being yet tender, may be in- 
jurd not only by the der, but alfo for want of Sap, the fupplies from 
the Root being yet but flow and {paring 5 that the faid Plume there- 
fore, by the Diffimilar Leaves, may have the advantage likewife of 
fome refrefhment from Dew or Rain. For thefe having their Buffs 
a little beneath that of the Plwwe, and expanding themfelyes on all 
fides of it, they often ftand after Rain, likea Veflel of Water, con- 
tinually foaking and fuppling it, left its new accefs into the Ayr, fhould 
thrivel it. 
48. §. Moreover, that fince the Diffimilar Leaves by their Bafis 
intercept the Root and Plume, the greater and grofler part of the 
Sap, may be, by the way, depofited into thofe; and {0 the pureft pro- 
ceed into the yet but young and delicate Plume, as its fitteft _4/;- 
went. 
49. §. Laftly, we have here a demonftration of the being of 
the Seminal Root: which, fince through the colour or fmalnefs of 
the Seed, it could not by Diffeétion be obferv’d, except in fome 
few ; Nature hath here provided us away of viewing it in the now 
effoliated Lobes, not of one or two Seeds, but of hundreds; the Sezs- 
zal Root vifibly branching it felf towards the Cone or Verges of the 
faid Lobes, or now Diffimilar Leaves. 


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