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there appears init a fmall Duétws or Chanel 5 which runs from the bot- 
tom to the top, like an Ax7s, through the niidle of it. At firft, Tad, 8k; 
no, wider than to receive the Hair of a Mavs -Head 5 not: vilible, ex= 
cept in aflice hereof cut tranfverlly, and viewedin a Glas. Being 
grown a little wider, it may be feen, if the Membrane be dexteroutly 
cut by the length, At which time, it is alfo dilated into two Oval 
Cavities, one at'each end: which are astwo little Ciiterzs, whereinto 
a moft pure Lywpha continually owzeth, and is therein referved for 
the nourifhment of the seed 5 and through the Chawel which runs be- 
tween the Cifferns is emptied out ofone Cifferm intoanother, according 
as the Seed or the Inmoft. Membrane hath need of it 5 7. e. as the Wea- 
ther and other Circumftances do more or lef§ accelerate their Growth, 
and fo render the Lywpha ufeful to them. 

13. .§. A few days after this, the Innermoft Membrane begins to 
appear; growing, like a foft Node or Bud, out of the upper Czffera 5 
tothe lower end of which it is joyned by a fhort and. tender Stalk from Tab. 8 1: 
whence it is produced into a Conick oval Figure, anfwerable to that of 
the Cifferz. 
14. §. This Membrane, though foft and full of Sap, yet being | 
compared with the midlemoft, isa clofe and compact Body, compofed 
of Bladders above 300 times fmaller than they are inthat. Whereby, 
as the Seed is fo well guarded, as not to be fupplyed with any part of 
the Lympha, but the pureft: fo neither with any more of this, than 
will faffice, without the danger of making an Ivnadation out of fo great 
a Lake. 
1s. §. This Merzbrane, if it be pulled with a moft {teady hand,and 
very gently, upwards, it will draw a fmall tranfparent String after it 
to the bottom of the Midle Membrane: The faid String though for 
the greater part, Parenchymous, yet being ftrengihened with the ad- 
mixture of ome Lignous Fibres; no otherwife vilible in either of thefe 
two Membranes. §o that they feem, to be a fmall portion of thofe 
which are inofculated at the bottome of the Outer Membrane, and 
thence produced through the midlemoft, underneath the Chanel, till at 
Jaft they break forth into the upper C#/fer7, where they form this In- 
ner Membrane : a picce of clofe-wrought Work, fuitable to the in- 
comparable finenefs of all the stuff’ out of which it is made. 
16. §. The fame Membrane is originally entire, as the Midlemoft: 
but being grown to about the bignefs ofa Carvi-Seed, becomes a little Tb, 2 
hollow near the Cove. And the Ligvous Fibers abovelaid, fetching their “4” © ee 
compafs from the Ba/é, fhoot forth into the Cone ; and fo make a very 
fmall Node therein, for the firlt Ezy towards the Generation of the 
Seed. The faid Fibers being thus fpun out,to the utmoft degree of fine- 
nef for this purpofe. 
17. §. This Node, being grown about 5 part as big as a Cheefe- 
Mite; it begins next to be divided by a little indenture at the Top. Tad, 21. 
Which growing by degrees ftill deeper, the Node is hereby at length 
diftinguifhed into two Lobes or thick Leaves. ‘ 
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