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Book I. of Plants. 5 
20. §- But although the Psrenchyma be common, as is faid, to 
all the Organical Parts 5 yet in very differing proportions. In the 
Plume, where it is proportionably leaft, it maketh about three Fifths 
of the whole Plume 5 inthe Radicle, itmaketh above five Sevenths of 
the whole Radicle 5 andin each Lobe, is fo far Over-proportionate, as 
to make at leaft nine Tenths of the whole Lobe. 
21. §. By what hath been faid, that the Parenchywa or Pulpis not 
the only conftituting Part, befides the Cuticle, is imply’d : there be- 
ing another Body, of an effentially different fubftance, embofom'd here= 
in: which maybe found not only inthe Radicle and Plume, but alfo 
inthe Lobes themfelves, and fo in the whole Beaw. 
22. §. This Inner Body appears very plain and confpicuous in 
cutting the Redicle athwart, and fo proceeding by degrees towards Tab.t.f. 16, 
the Plume, through both which it runneth in a large and ftrait Trunk, 11, 12. 
In the Lobes, being it is there in fo very {mall proportion, °tis difficult- 
ly feen, efpecially towards their Verges. Yet if with a tharp Knife 
you fmoothly cut the Lobes ofthe Bean athwart, divers {mall Specks, Tbs £13 
of a different colour from that of the Parenchyma, ftanding thereinall **”"” fix3- 
along ina Line, may beobferv'd; which Specks arethe Terminations 
of the Branches of this Inner Body, 
23. §. For this Inner body, asit is exiftent in every Organical Part 
ofthe Beaz 5 fo is it, with refpett to each Part, molt regularly di- 
ftributed. Ina good part of the Radicle ‘tis one entire Trunks to- 
wards the Bafis thereof, ‘tis divided into three main Branches 5 the mid- Tabu. f 14. 
dlemoft runneth dire&ly into the Plume; the other two on either fide 
it, after alittle fpace, pafs into the Lobes; where the {aid Branches 
dividing themfelves into other fmaller 5 and thofe into more,and fmal- 
ler again, are terminated towardsthe Verges of each Lobes in which 
manner the faid Izner Body being diftributed it becomes in each Lobe a 
true and perfect Rovi. 
24. §. Of this Seminal Root, as now we'll call it, from the Defcrip- 
tion here given, it is further obfervable; That the two main Brdvch- 
es hereof; in which thefeveral Ramifications in each Lobe are all uni- 
ted, are not committed intothe Seminal Trunk of the Plume, nor yet 
{tand at right angles with That andthe Radicle, and fo with equal re- 
{pect towards them both : but being produced through part of the Pz- 
renchyma of the Redicle, are at laft united therein to the main Trunk, 
and make acute Angles therewith: as may be feen in the fame. f14. Tabs. fi th. 
25. §. This Seminal Root being fo tender, cannot be perfectly ex- 
carnated, (as may the Vefels in the Parts of an Avimal) by the moft 
accurate Hand. Yet by diffection begun and continu’d, as is above 
declared, its whole frame and diftribution may be eafily obferv'd. Again, 
ifyoutake the Lobe ofa Bean, and lengthwife pare off its Parenchyma 
by degrees, and in extreme thin flices, many Bréuches of the Seminal 
Root, (which by theother way of Diffection were only noted by fo 
many Specks) bothas they are fewer about the Bafis of the Beam, and 
more numerous towards its Verges, in fome good diftin@ion and entire- 
nefs will appear. Forthis you mufthavenew Beavs + or elf foaked in 
Water, or buryed for fome time. 
26. §. Asthe Inner Body is branched out in the Lobes, fo is it in 
the Plume + For if you cut the Plume athwart, and from the Bafis pro- 
ceed along the Body thereof, you'll therein find, firft, one large Tramk 
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