

Book I. of Plants. 

not only ina proportionate quantity, and by. degrees; but alfo ina 
purer body ; and poffibly not without fome Vegetable Tznéure, trant 
mitted to the Beax. Whereas, were the Bean naked, the Sap mutt 
needs be, as over-copious, fo but crude and immature, as not being fil- 
tred through fo fine a Gotton as the Coats be. And asthey have theufe 
of a Filtre to the tranfient Sap; fo ofa Vefel to that which is fill 
depofited within them; being alike accommodated to the fecurer Fer- 
mentation hereof,asBottles or Barrels are to Beer, or any other Fermene 
tative Liquor. ane 
32. §. And asthe Fermentation is promoted by fome Aperture in 
the Veffel ; fo have we the Foramen in the upper Coat alfo contrived. 
Thatif there fhould beneed of fome more Afery Particles to excite 
the Fermentation; through this, they may obtain their Entry. Or, 
onthe contrary, fhould there be any fuch Particles or Steams, as might 
damp the genuine proceeding thereof, through this again, they may 
have eafie iffue. Orif, by being over copious, they fhould become too 
high a Ferment; and{o precipitate thofe foft and flow degrees, as are 
neceflary to adue Vegetation. The {aid Aperture being that, asa com- 
mon Pafport, here to the Sap, which what we call the Bung-hole of 
the Barrel, is to the new tunn’d Liquor. 
33. §. And the Radicle being defigned to fhoot forth firft, as pre- 
fently fhallbe thew’d how; therefore is it diftinly furrounded with 
the Inner and more fucculent Coat, That being thereby fuppled on 
every.fide, its eruption may be the better promoted, 
34. §. The Sap being paffed through the Coats, it next enters the 
Body of the Bea; yet not indifcriminately neither 5 but, being filtted 
through the Outer Coat, and fermented in the Body of the Juner, isby 
mediation of the Cuticle, again more finely filtr’d, and fo entereth the 
Parenchyma it {elfundera fourth Government. 
35. §. Through which Partthe Sap pafling towardsthe Seminal 
Root, as through that which is ofamore {patious content 5 befides the 
benefit it hath of a farther percolation, it will alfo find room enough 
for a more free and active fermenting and waturation herein, And be+ 
ing moreover, part of the true Body of the Beav, and {0 with its pro- 
per Semsinalities or Tinétures copioully repleat; the Ssp will not only 
find room, but alfo matter enough, by whofe Energy its Fermentation 
will {till be more advanced, 
36. § And the Sap being duly prepared here, it next paffeth into 
all the Branches of the Seminal Root, and fo under a fifth Government, 
Wherein how delicate ‘tis now become, we may conceive by the pro- 
,portion betwixt the Parenchyma and this Seminal Rost, fo much only 
of the beft digefted sap being difchargedfrom the whole Stock in that, 
as this will receive. And this, moreover, as the Parenchymea, with ‘its 
proper Seminalities being endowed 5 the Sap for the fupply of the Ra- 
dicle, and of the young Root from thence, is duly prepared thereinjand 
with its higheft Tizéure and Impregnation at laft entiched. - 
37. §-. The Sap being thus prepared in the Lobes of the Beay, “tis 
thence difcharg’d ; and either intothe P/wmeor the Radicle,mutt forthe 
with iffue. And fince the Plume isa dependent on the Radicles the 
Sap therefore ought firlt to .be difpenced to this: which accordingly, 
is ever found to thoot forth before the Plume: and fometimesan inch 
or twoinlength.. Now becaufe the primitive courfe of the sap _ 
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