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theBottom ofthe Main Body; here it lies ina {mall round Cavity in 
the middle of the Back, The Stone, or Main Body, wherethis Part 
grows to it, is not fohard, as more remote from it: and is therefore 
probably in fome part diffolved , by lying in the Grouzd, as in 
Cora. : 
4. §. But for the moft part, the’ Maiz Body is divided, as hath been 
faid, intotwo Lobes; andthofe in Subftance Homogeneous to the o- 
ther Part or Parts, plainly diftinguifhed in moft Kerzels and other 
large Seeds 5 and not difficultly in many leffer ones, asin that of Viole 
Lunaris, Scabious, Doves-Foot, &c. if flipped out of their Covers be- 
fore they are full ripe. 
5.$. In Hounds-Tongue, they are of acircular figure, and very large in 
Proportion to the Radicle. In Cucumer, oblong , with fome vifible 
Branches of the Seminal Root 5 and the Radicle fomewhat bigger. But 
in Scorzonera, very. long, like the Leggs of a Pair of Compaffes: and 
the two firft, or déffimular Leavs of the Plant into which they are 
converted, are of the fame Shape. Of thefe and many more, the 
Radicle is fhort and pointed 5 and lies in one ftraight Line with the 
Lobes. 
6. §. In Viola Lunaria, they are very large; and the Branches of 
the Seminal Root, fairly apparent, fo as to refemble a Pair of Leaos. 
The Radicle pretty long, equally thick from end to end, andcouched 
down upon the two Lobes, each of them having a little Shoulder for it 
tolieupon. In Woad, where it hath the like Poffure and shape, as alfo 
in Chamelina, Eruca, and many others, it is very Bulky, being bigger 
than both the Lobes put together. 
7.§. Of this Part, I think it may be obferved, That commonly thofe 
Seeds, wherein it is very {mall with refpect to the Lobes, produce a 
Perennial Plant: And fo, vice. verfa, where it is very large, an Azuual 
one. Inthe latter, the Seminal Virtue being more vigorous, and fo 
tending more haftily to the Bufinefs of Generation, followed with the 
Death of the Plant. 
8.§. IN THE former Seeds, the Lobes lie flat one againft another. 
But in Garden-Radifh, they are folded up, fo as to receive the Radi- 
cle into their Bofowe: as when a Chicken tucks his Head under his 
Wing. 
- §. In Holyoak, the Lobes are plated upwards, and. re-plated 
down again. Being moft agreeably compofed to the Shape of the 
Covers, as thofe are to their Poffure onthe Plant, In Maple, they are 
plated one over another, and forouled up. 
10. §. Inthe Cottox-Seedwhich confifteth almoft wholly of two very 
broad and thin Lobes or Leaves, the Folds are yetmore numerous 5 all 
curioufly reduced toan exact and folid Oval. 
11. §. It happens now and then, that inftead of two, there are 
three Lobes, asin the Kernels of Plus, Apples, and other Fruits, and 
the fmaller forts of Seeds, will fpring up fometimes with more than 
two diffimilar Leaves, originally the Lobes of the seed, Thefe'are ob- 
ferved by fome, more frequently to produce a double Flower, which 
oe be, becaufe the féminal Virtue in fach Seeds, is increafed by athird 
art. 
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