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3. § If then we takea Bean and diflectit, we fhall find it cloath: 
ad with a doubled Ve? or Coat. Thefe Coats, while the Bean is yet 
green, are feparable, and eafily diftinguifhed. Or in an old One, after 
it hath lay’n two or three days in a mellow Soils or been foaked as 
long a time in Water: asin Z4b.1. When ‘tis dry, they cleave fo clofély. 
together, that the Eye not before inftrudted, will judge them but ones 
the inner Coat (which is of the moft rare contexture)(o far fhrinking up, 
as tofeem only the roughnef$ of the outer, fomewhat refembling Wafers 
under Magquaroons, 
4. §. The Inner Coa#, in its Natural State, is every where twice, 
and in fome places, thrice as thick, as the Outer. Next tothe Radi. 
cle, which I thall prefently defcribe, it is fix or feven times thicker 5 
and encompafies the Radicle round about, as in the fame Figure ap- 
Tabt.f.2+ pears, 
5. $+ Atthe thicker end of the Bean, in the outer Coat, a very 
fall Foramen prefents it felf, even to the bare Eye. In Diflection 
Tab.t. firma US found to terminate againft the point of that Part which I call 
oe the Radicle. It is of that capacity, as to admit a {mall Virginal Wyer 5 
and is moft of all confpicuous in a green Bean, Efpecially, ifa little 
magnified with a good Spetfacle-Glaf. This Foramen isnota hole ca- 
fually made, or by the breaking off of the Stalk ; but defignedly form- 
ed, for the ufes hereafter mentioned. It may be obferved not only in 
the great Garden-Bean, but likewife in the other kinds 3 inthe French- 
Bean very plainly 5 in Pease, Lupines, Vetches, Lewtiles, and other 
Pulfé ‘tis alfo found; and in many Seeds not reckoned of this kind- 
red, asin that of Fenugreek, Medica Tornata, Goats-Rue, andothers : 
Inmany of which, “tis fo very {mall, as fearcely, without the help of 
Gliffes to be difcovered ; and in fome, not without cutting off part 
of the Seed, which otherwife would intercept the fight hereof. _ 
6. §. That this Foramen is truly permeable, even in old Setting- 
Beans, and the other Seeds above named, appears upon their being 
foaked for fome time in Water. For then, taking them out, and cruth- 
ing them alittle, many finall bubles will alternately arife and break up- 
on it, 
7. §. Ofall Seeds which have thick or hard Covers, it is al{ ob- 
fervable, That they have the fame likewife Perforated, as above faid, 
or infome other manner. And accordingly; although the Coats of fuch 
Seeds as are lodg’d in Shel/s or Stowes, being thin, are not vifibly per- 
forateds yet the Stones and shells themfelves always ares as in Chap. 7. 
fhall be feen how. To which Chapter, what is farther obfervable, ¢i- 
ther as to the nature and number of the Covers of the Seed, I alfo 
refer. 
8. §. The Coats of the Bean being ftripp'd off, the proper seed 
fhewsit fel The parts whereof it is compofed, ate three 3 Jc. the 
Main Body, and two more, appendant to it; which we may call, the 
Three Organical parts of the Bean. 
9. §. The Main Body is not one entire piece, but always divided, 
lengthwife, into two halves or Lobes, which are both joyn’d together 
at the Bufis ofthe Bean. Thefe Lobes in dry Beans, are but difficultly 
Tebite fi2,3s feparated or obferv'ds but in young ones, efpecially boil’d, they eafily 
ae" flip afander. f 
Tab. 1. fi2. 
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