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11. §. Within every great Bag, is conteined a Third Ps 
which is alfo a Clufter of other little Bags, about the bigne 
Oate, all disjoyned one from another, and having their diftinG@ Stalks, Tab. 66. 
of feveral Lengths, by which they are all faftned to the utmoft Side of 
the great Bag, wherein they are conteined. Within each of thefe lefler 
Bags are conteined many hundreds of Bladders, confilting of moft ex- 
tream fine Threds woven up together into that Figure. Within thele 
Bladders lies the Acid Fuyce of the Limon. 
12. §. A CUCUMER, hath alfo a Threefold Parenchyzz. The 
Utmoft, is derived, from the Barque. In this, being expoled for fome 
time to dry, and then cut tranfverfly with a Rafors not only the Blad- 
ders, but alfo the Threds whereofthe Bladders confift, through a good 
Microfcope, are apparent. 
13. §. Throughout this Parenchywa the Sap-Veffels are difperfed 5 
near the Circumference, in Ten or Twelve very large Branches. Each Tab, 66. 
of thefe larger Branches, embofoms another of Aer-Ve/ffels in its Centre. 
Adjacent to the Midle Parenchyma, they ftand in Clufires of much 
f{maller Branches, but more numerous. 
14. g. Out of all thefe Sap-Ve/fels, iffues a tranfparent and vifcous 
Mucilage 3 which being dryed, becomes as hard and tough as Gum Tra- 
gacanth, Analogous to which, I fuppofe, is the truly purgative part of 
Elaterinm. 
15. §. The Midle Parenchyma is derived from the Pith; and divi- 
ded into Three Colums, ftanding triangularly, and having each of them 74) 64. 
a Triangular Figure. Within thefe Colums ftand a diftinéct Sort of Sap- 
Veffels : from whence, feveral {mall and fhort F7bres hoot into the In- 
moft Pzrerchyma; whereupon the Seeds dohang. So that thefe Coluzns 
are as it were the Beds on which the Seeds grow. With each of the 
Seed-Branchs or Fibres,goes {ome part of the faid Parenchyma or Colum, 
out of which, the Covers of the Seed are formed. 
16. §. The Inmoft Pareschyma wherein the Seeds lie, and which 
anfwers to the Pulp of a Limon, feems likewife to be derived from the Typ, 6¢ 
Colums, that is, to be originally thence produced upon the Seed-Fibres, a 
and afterwards fpread and augmented into a Pulp. By Three Inférti- 
ons from the Colums, and asmany fromthe Utmolt Parenchyma, and 
thefe resinferted 5 it is divided into Six Triangular Bodies 3 and every 
Triangle, into Three Ovals. 
17. §. Anear refemblance betwixt the Garden and Wild Cucumer, 
with refpect to the Inward Strudfure, as well as the Outward Figure, To 66, 
may be obferved: Both of them having a Threefold Parenchyma. Yet 
with this difference, That the Three white Triangular Bodies or Co- 
Iums in the one, is anfwered by a White Ring or Tube in the other. 































































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