

THE 
CONTENTS. 


CHAP. IL 
Of the Seed in its State of Vegetation, 












HE Method propounded, §.1. The Garden-Bean, diffected, 3. 
| The two Coats Deferibed, 3, 4. The Foranen in the outer 
Coat, 5, 6. What generally obfervable of the Covers of the Seed, 
7. The Organical Parts of the Seed, 8. The Main Body, 9,10. The 
Radicle i the Bean, 11. Iv other Seeds, 12. The Plume, 13, 14. The 
Similary Parts, 15. The Cuticle, 16, 17. The Parenchymia, 18, 19, 
20. The Inner Body, 21, to 29. No folid Account yet given, of Ve- 
getation, 30. The Coats how in common fubfervient to the Vegetation 
of the Seed, 31. The Foramen, of what ufe herein, 32. The ufé of the 
Inner Coat, 33. Of the Cuticle, 34. Of thé Parenchyma, 35. Of 
the Seminal Root, 36. How the Radicle firft becomes a Root, 37. 
By what means, the Plume all this while preferved, 38. How after the 
Root the Plume vegetates, 39. How the Lobes, 40. But not in all 
Seeds, 41. That they do in moft, demonftrated, 42, 43,44. What hence 
refoluable, 45. The ufé of the Diflimilar Leaves, 46, to the end. 














CHAP. I. 
Of the Root. 









His alfo to be Diffected, §. 1. The Skin hereof; its Original, 2. 
. The Cortical Body, its Original, 3. Texture, 4. Pores, 5. 
Proportions, 6. The Lignous Body, its Origizal,7. Texture, 8. Pro- 
portions, 9. TheInfertment, its Oriinal, 10. Pores, 11, Number and 
Size,12. A fuller defeription hereof, with that of the Ofculations of the 
Lignous Body, 13, 14, 15. The Pith, its original fometimes fron the 
Seed, 16. Sometimes from the Barque, 17. Its Pores, 18, 19. Pro- 
portions, 20. Fibres of the Lignous Body therein, 21. The Pith of 
thofé Fibres, 22; How the Root grows; and the ufe of the Skin; Cor 
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