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The Anatomy Book 1V: 

Tab. 80. 
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tinued, not only through the Pulp, but alfo through the Stoze it (elf, 
into the hollow of the fame, where it meets, and is united with the 
Lining thereof. Whereby, as it further helps to the drying and hard- 
ning of the Stowe fo alfo renders‘it cleavable in that part, where it runs 
through it. And therefore, whereas towards the Stalk, it goes no far= 
ther than to the Seed- Branch, and fo but half way through the Stove : 
towards the Top of the Fruit, where the Radicle ftands, and where 
the Stove begins to cleave, it runs quite through it. 
~ 3. §.  Nuature having thus provided a convenient Users, She next 
taketh care about the Membranes of the Fetus, Thefe are Three appa- 
rently diftin@, and in many refpects different one from another. 
8. §. The outer Afembrane is derived from the Parenchyma which 
{urrounds the Seed-Branch 3 which, upon its entry into the hollow of 
the Stoxe, is expanded, asit were, into two Bladders, one within an- 
other; whereof, one becomes the Lining of the Stone; the other, 
this outer Membrane : as is beft een by cuting a young Aprecock, when 
it is about half'an Inch long, down through the midle, or from the Seat 
of the Flower to the stalk, between the two Lips. 
‘9. §. This outer Membrane, at this age, hatha good full and frim 
Bedy, about +, ofan Inch thick, or through an ordinary Gla/, halfan 
Inch, where it is thickeft, as at the Sides and the greater end: the 
Poynt being thinner, for the more eafy ereption of the Radicle into the 
Earth. Compofed of Bludders, through an ordinary Glajs, about as 
big, as a Colewort-Seed. 
Io. §. Throughout this Membrane, the Veféls conteined in the 
Seed-Branch are diftributed. Beginning a little below the fmaller end of 
the Coat or Memlrane, they thence fetch their circuit both ways round 
about, juft beneath the Surface of the Membrane, and at Jaft, meet in 
the midle of the greater end, where they are-all inofculated, fo as to 
make a kind of wbilical Node. From whence they {trike deeper-into 
it, and at laft,into the midle Membrane, in which they preftntly become 
invifible. By thefe Vefels, the Sap is brought and fpewed intothe midle 
Membrane. So that the outer Membrane {eemeth, in fome refpedcts, to 
be anfwerable to the Placenta in Animals. 
tr. §. The midle Membrane, is derived fromthe. bottome of the 
Outer. From whence efpecially, but alfo round about, the Bladders 
hereof (all angular) are more and more amplified towards the Centres 
moft of them being at leaft two hundred times biger, ‘than thofe of the 
Outer Membrane : whereby it looks, through a G/a/s, not unlike a 
Coome fall of Hoxys or in regard of their great tranfparency, like a 
company of little Crg/2al Pans tull of a pure Lympha. 
12. §. This Midle Membrane, is properly {0 called, from the ftate 
and condition it hath, upon the Augmentation of the Seed, at which 
time, it obteins the nature of an Involucrum, But originally, it is 
every where entire, without any HoLow, filling up the Cavity of the 
Outer Membrane, like a foft and delicate Pulp. After a {hort time, 
there 

