_Of the Seed as Vegetating._
Being to speak of Vegetables; and, as far as Inspection and consequent
Reason may conduct, to enquire into the visible Constitutions and Uses of
their several Parts; I chuse that Method which may with best advantage
suit to what we have to say hereon: And that is the Method of Nature her
self, in her continued Series of Vegetations, proceeding from the Seed
sown, to the formation of the Root, Trunk, Branch, Leaf, Flower, Fruit,
and last of all, of the Seed also to be sown again; all which we shall in
the same order particularly speak of.
The Essential Constitutions of the said Parts are in all Vegetables the
same: But for Observation, some are more convenient; in which I shall
chiefly instance. And first of all, for the Seed we chuse the great
Garden-Bean.
If we take a Bean then and dissect it, we shall find it cloathed with
a double Vest or Coat: These Coats, while the Bean is yet green, are
separable, and easily distinguished. When ’tis dry, they cleave so
closely together, that the Eye, not before instructed, will judge them
but one; the inner Coat likewise (which is of the most rare contexture)
so far shrinking up, as to seem only the roughness of the outer, somewhat
resembling Wafers under _Maquaroons_.
At the thicker end of the Bean, in the outer Coat, a very small _Foramen_
presents it self: In dissection ’tis found to terminate against the point
of that part which I call the _Radicle_, whereof I shall presently speak.
It is of that capacity as to admit a small Virginal Wyer, and is most
conspicuous in a green Bean.
This _Foramen_ may be observed not only in the great Garden-Bean, but
likewise in the other kinds; in the French-Bean very plainly; in Pease,
Lupines, Vetches, Lentiles, and other Pulse ’tis also found; and in many
Seeds not reckoned of this kindred, as in that of _Fœnugreek_, _Medica
Tornata_, _Goats-Rue_, and others: In many of which, ’tis so very small,
as scarcely, without the help of Glasses to be discovered; and in some,
not without cutting off part of the Seed besides, which otherwise would
intercept the sight hereof; it being in these and such like Seeds, from
the place of the breaking off of the Peduncle perfectly distinct.
We may then observe, that all Seeds which have thick or hard Coats,
have the same likewise perforated, in this, or some other manner. And
accordingly, although the Coats of such Seeds as are lodg’d in Shells or
Stones, being thin, are not visibly perforated; yet the Stones and Shells
themselves always are; as _Chap. 7._ shall be seen how. To which Chapter,
what is farther observable, either as to the nature, or number of the
covers of the Seed, I also refer.
The Coats of the Bean being stripp’d off the proper Seed shews it self.
The parts whereof it is constituted, are three; _sc._ the main Body, and
two other appendant to it, which we may call the three Organical parts of
the Bean.
The main Body is not one entire piece, but alwaies divided lengthwise
into two halves or Lobes, which are both joyn’d together at the Basis
of the Bean. These Lobes in dry Beans, are but difficultly separated or
observ’d; but in young ones, especially boil’d, they easily slip asunder.
See _Fig. 1_.
Some very few Seeds are divided, not into two Lobes, but more; as that of
_Cresses_; and some not at all divided, but entire; as _Corn_: Excepting
which few, all other Seeds, even the smallest are divided, like as the
Bean, into just two Lobes: whereof though in most Seeds we cannot by
dissection be inform’d; yet otherwise we easily may as shall be seen.
At the Basis of the Bean, the two other Organical parts stand appendent;
by mediation whereof the two Lobes meet and join together. The greater
of these two parts stands without the two Lobes, and upon divesting the
Bean of its Coats, is immediately visible. ’Tis of a whiter colour, and
more glossie than the main Body, especially when the Bean is young. In
the Bean, and many other Seeds, tis situated somewhat above the thicker
end, as you hold the Bean in its most proper posture for growth. In
Oak-Kernels, which we call Acorns, Apple-Kernels, Almonds, and many other
Seeds, it stands prominent just from the end; the Basis and the end
being in these the same, but in the Bean divers. See _Fig. 1_.
This part is not only in the Bean, and the Seeds above mentioned; but in
all others: being that which upon the Vegetation of the Seed, becomes
the Root of the Plant; which therefore I call the _Radicle_: by which, I
mean the Materials, abating the Formality, of a Root, ’Tis not easie to
be observed, saving in some few Seeds, amongst which, that of the Bean is
the most fair and ample of all I have seen; but that of some other Seeds,
is, in proportion, greater; as of _Fœnugreek_, which is almost as big as
one of its Lobes.
The lesser of the two laid Appendents lies occult between the two Lobes
of the Bean, by separation whereof only it is to be seen. ’Tis enclos’d
in two small Cavities form’d in the Lobes for its reception. Its colour
comes near that of the _Radicle_; and is founded upon the Basis thereof
having a quite contrary production, _sc._ towards the cone of the Bean;
and being that very part, which, in process, becomes the Body or Trunk of
the Vegetable. See _Fig. 1_.
For the sake of this Part principally it is, that the Bean is divided
into Lobes; _sc._ that it may be warmly and safely lodged up between
them; and so secur’d from the Injuries so tender a Part would sustain
from the Mould, whereto, had the Main Body been entire, it must upon the
Sprouting of the _Bean_ have lain contiguous.
This Part is not, like the _Radicle_, an entire Body, but divided at its
loose end into divers pieces, all very close set together, as Feathers
in a Bunch; for which reason it may be called the _Plume_. They are so
close, that only two or three of the outmost are at first seen: but upon
a nice and curious separation of these, the more interiour still may be
discovered. Now as the _Plume_ is that Part which becomes the Trunk of
the Plant, so these pieces are so many true, and already formed, though
not displayed, Leaves, intended for the said Trunk, and foulded up in the
same plicature, wherein, upon the sprouting of the Bean, they afterwards
appear. In a French Bean the two outmost are very fair and elegant. In
the great Garden-Bean, two extraordinary small Plumes, often, if not
always, stand one on either side the great one now describ’d: From which,
in that they differ in nothing save in their size, I therefore only here
just take notice of them. And these three Parts, _sc._ the _Main Body_,
the _Radicle_, and the _Plume_, are concurrent to the making up of every
Seed; and no more than these.
Having thus taken a view of the Organical Parts of the Bean, let
us next examine the Similary, _sc._ those whereof the Organical are
compos’d: a distinct observation of which, for a clear understanding of
the Vegetation of the Seed, and of the whole Plant arising thence, is
requisite: To obtain which, we must proceed in our Anatomy.
Dissecting a Bean then, the first Part occurring is its Cuticle. The
Eye and first Thoughts suggest it to be only a more dense and glossy
Superficies; but better enquiry discovers it a real Cuticle. ’Tis so
exquisitely thin, and for the most part so firmly continuous with the
Body of the Bean, that it cannot, except in some small Rag, be distinctly
seen; which, by carrying your Knife superficially into the Bean, and then
very gently bearing upward what you have cut, will separate and shew it
self transparent. This Cuticle is not only spread upon the Convex of the
Lobes, but also on their Flats, where they are contiguous, extending it
self likewise upon both the _Radicle_ and _Plume_, and so over the whole
Bean.
This Part, though it be so far common with the Coats of the Bean, as to
be like those, an Integument; yet are we in a quite different Notion to
conceive of it: For whereas the Coats upon setting the Bean, do only
administer the Sap, and, as being superseded from their Office, then die;
as shall be seen: this, on the contrary, with the Organical Parts of the
Bean, is nourished, augmented, and by a real Vegetation co-extended.
Next to the Cuticle, we come to the _Parenchyma_ it self; the Part
throughout which the _inner Body_, whereof we shall speak anon, is
disseminated; for which reason I call it the _Parenchyma_. The Surface
hereof is somewhat dense, but inwardly ’tis more porous, and of a laxer
Contexture. If you view it in a Microscope, it hath some similitude to
the Pith, while sappy, in the Roots and Trunks of Plants; and that for
good reason, as in _Ch. 2._ shall be seen. This is best seen in green
Beans. See _Fig. 2_.
This Part would seem by its colour to be peculiar to the Lobes of
the Bean; but as is the Cuticle, so is this also, common both to the
_Radicle_ and _Plume_; that is, the _Parenchyma_ of the Bean, as to
its essential substance, is the same in all three. The reason why the
colour of the _Plume_, and especially of the _Radicle_, which is white,
is so different from that of the Lobes, may chiefly depend upon their
being more compact and dense, and thence their different Tinctures. And
therefore the Lobes themselves, which are green while the Bean is young;
yet being old and dry, become whitish too. And in many other Seeds, as
Acorns, Almonds, the Kernels of Apples, Plums, Nuts, _&c._ the Lobes,
even fresh and young, are pure white as the Radicle it self.
But although the _Parenchyma_ be common, as is said, to all the Organical
Parts; yet in very differing proportions. In the _Plume_, where it is
proportionably least, it maketh about three Fifths of the whole _Plume_;
in the _Radicle_, it maketh about five Seavenths of the whole _Radicle_;
and in each Lobe, is so far over-proportionate, as to make at least nine
Tenths of the whole Lobe.
By what hath been said, that the _Parenchyma_ is not the only
constituting Part, besides the Cuticle, is imply’d: there being another
Body, of an essentially different substance, embosom’d herein: which may
be found, not only in the _Radicle_ and _Plume_, but also in the Lobes
themselves, and so in the whole Bean. See _Fig. 2_.
This inner Body appears most plain and conspicuous in cutting the
_Radicle_ athwart, and so proceeding by degrees towards the _Plume_,
through both which it runneth in a large and straight Trunk. In the
Lobes, being it is there in so very small proportion, ’tis difficultly
seen, especially towards their Verges: yet if with a sharp Knife you
smoothly cut the Lobes of the Bean athwart, divers small Specks, of a
different colour from that of the _Parenchyma_, standing therein all
along in a Line, may be observ’d; which Specks are the Terminations of
the Branches of this inner Body. See _Fig. 3_.
For this inner Body, as it is existent in every Organical part of the
Bean, so is it, with respect to each part, most regularly distributed.
In a good part of the _Radicle_ ’tis one entire Trunk; towards the
Basis thereof, ’tis divided into three main Branches; the middlemost
runneth directly into the Plume; the other two on either side it, after
a little space, pass into the Lobes; where the said Branches dividing
themselves into other smaller; and those into more, and smaller again,
are terminated towards the Verges of each Lobe; in which manner the said
inner Body being distributed, it becomes in each Lobe, a true and perfect
Root. See _Fig. 2_.
This Seminal Root, as now we’ll call it, being so tender, cannot be
perfectly excarnated, as may the Vessels in the Parts of an Animal, by
the most accurate Hand; yet by dissection begun and continu’d, as is
above-declared, its whole frame and distribution may be easily observ’d.
Again, if you take the Lobe of a Bean, and lengthwise pare off its
_Parenchyma_ by degrees, and in very thin Shives, many Branches of the
Seminal Root, (which by the other way of Dissection were only noted by so
many Specks) both as they are fewer about the Basis of the Bean, and more
numerous towards its Verges, in some good distinction and entireness will
appear. For this you must have new Beans.
As the inner Body is branched out in the Lobes, so is it in the _Plume_:
For if you cut the _Plume_ athwart, and from the Basis proceed along
the Body thereof, you’l find therein, first, one large Trunk or Branch,
and after four or five very small Specks round about it, which are the
terminations of so many lesser Branches therewith distributed to the
several parts of the _Plume_. See _Fig. 4_. The distribution of the
inner Body, as it is continuous throughout all the Organical Parts of the
Bean, is represented by _Fig. 2_.
This _Inner Body_ is, by dissection, best observable in the Bean and
great Lupine. In other larger Pulse it shows likewise some obscure Marks
of it-self: But in no other Seeds, which I have observed, though of the
greatest size, as of _Apples_, _Plums_, _Nuts_, &c. is there any clear
appearance hereof, upon dissection, saving in the _Radicle_ and _Plume_;
the reason of which is partly from its quantity, being in most Seeds so
extraordinary little; partly from its Colour, which in most Seeds, is the
same with that of the _Parenchyma_ it self, and so not distinguishable
from it.
Yet in a _Gourd-Seed_, the whole _Seminal Root_, not only its _Main
Branches_, but also the Sub-divisions and Inosculations of the lesser
ones, are without any dissection, upon the separation of the Lobes,
on their contiguous Flats immediatly apparent. See _Fig. 5_. And as to
the existence of this Seminal Root, what Dissection cannot attain,
ocular inspection in hundreds of other Seeds, even the smallest, will
demonstrate; as in this _Chapter_ shall be seen how.
In the mean time, let us only take notice, that when we say every Plant
hath its Root, we reckon short, for every Plant hath really two, though
not contemporary, yet successive Roots, its Original or _Seminal-Root_
within its Seed, and its _Plant-Root_, which the _Radicle_ becometh in
its growth: the _Parenchyma_ of the Seed being in some resemblance, that
to the _Seminal Root_ at first, which the Mould is to the _Plant-Root_
afterwards; and the _Seminal Root_ being that to the _Plant-Root_, which
the _Plant-Root_ is to the _Trunk_. For our better understanding whereof,
having taken a view of the several Parts of a Bean, as far as Dissection
conducts; we will next briefly enquire into the use of the said Parts,
and in what manner they are the Fountain of Vegetation, and concurrent to
the being of the future Plant.
The general Cause of the growth of a _Bean_ or other Seed, is
_Fermentation_; that is, the _Bean_ lying in the Mould, and a moderate
access of some moisture, partly dissimilar, and partly congenerous,
being made, a gentle _Fermentation_ thence ariseth; by which the _Bean_
swelling, and the _Sap_ still encreasing, and the _Bean_ continuing still
to swell, the work thus proceeds: as is the usual way of explicating. But
that there is simply a _Fermentation_, and so a sufficient supply of
_Sap_, is not enough; but that this _Fermentation_ and the _Sap_ wherein
’tis made, should be under a various Government by divers Parts thereto
subservient, is also requisite; and as the various preparation of the
_Aliment_ in an _Animal_, equally necessary, the particular process of
the Work according whereto, we find none undertaking to declare.
Let us look upon a _Bean_ then, as a piece of Work so fram’d and set
together, as to declare a Design for the production of a Plant, which,
upon its lying in some convenient Soyl, is thus effected. First of all,
the _Bean_ being enfoulded round in its Coats, the _Sap_ wherewith it is
fed, must of necessity pass through these: By which means, it is not only
in a proportionate quantity, and by due degrees; but also in a purer
body; and possibly not without some Vegetable Tincture, transmitted to
the _Bean_. Whereas, were the _Bean_ naked, the _Sap_ must needs be, as
over-copious, so but crude and immature, as not being filtred through so
fine a Cotton as the Coats be. And as they have the use of a _Filtre_
to the transient _Sap_, so of a Vessel to that which is still deposited
within them; being alike accommodated to the securer _Fermentation_
hereof, as Bottles or Barrels are to Beer, or any other _Fermentative
Liquor_.
And as the _Fermentation_ is promoted by some Aperture in the Vessel; so
have we the _Foramen_ in the upper Coat also contrived, that if there
should be need of some more aiery Particles to excite the _Fermentation_,
through this they may obtain their Entry: Or, on the contrary, should
there be any such Particles or Steams as might damp the genuine
proceeding thereof, through this again they may have easy issue: being
that, as a common Pasport here to the _Sap_, which what we call the
Bung-hole of the Barrel, is to the new-tunn’d Liquor. That this _Foramen_
is truly permeable even in old setting _Beans_, appears upon their being
soak’d for some time in Water: For then taking them out, and crushing
them a little, many small bubbles will alternately arise and break upon
it.
The _Sap_ being passed through the Coats, it next enters the Body of the
_Bean_; yet not indiscriminately neither; but, being filtred through the
_Outer Coat_, and fermented both in the Body and Concave of the _Inner_,
is by mediation of the _Cuticle_, again more finely filtr’d, and so
entereth the _Parenchyma_ it self under a fourth Government.
Through which Part the _Sap_ passing towards the _Seminal Root_, as
through that which is of a more spacious content; besides the benefit it
hath of a farther percolation, it will also find room enough for a more
free and active fermenting and maturation herein. And being moreover,
part of the true Body of the _Bean_, and so with its proper Seminalities
or Tinctures copiously repleat; the _Sap_ will not only find room, but
also matter enough, by whose Energy its _Fermentation_ will still be more
advanced.
And the _Sap_ being duly prepared here, it next passeth into all the
Branches of the _Seminal Root_, and so under a fifth Government. Wherein
how delicate ’tis now become, we may conceive by the proportion betwixt
the _Parenchyma_ and this _Seminal Root_; so much only of the best
digested _Sap_ being discharged from the whole Stock in that, as this
will receive. And this, moreover, as the _Parenchyma_, with its proper
Seminalities being endowed; the _Sap_, for the supply of the _Radicle_,
and of the young Root from thence, is duly prepared therein, and with its
highest Tincture and Impregnation at last enriched.
The _Sap_ being thus prepared in the Lobes of the _Bean_, ’tis thence
discharg’d; and either into the _Plume_ or the _Radicle_, must forthwith
issue. And since the _Plume_ is a dependent on the _Radicle_; the _Sap_
therefore ought first to be dispenced to this; which accordingly is ever
found to shoot forth before the _Plume_, and that sometimes an inch or
two in length. Now because the primitive course of the _Sap_ into the
_Radicle_, is thus requisite, therefore by the frame of the Parts of
the _Bean_ is it made necessary too. For we may observe that the two
main Branches of the _Seminal Root_ in which the several _Ramifications_
in either Lobe are all united, commit not themselves into the _Seminal
Trunk_ of the _Plume_, nor yet so as to stand at right Angles with them,
and with equal respect towards them both; but being producted through
part of the _Parenchyma_ of the _Radicle_, are at last united therein to
the main Trunk, and make acute Angles therewith; as may be seen by _Fig.
2_. Now the _Sap_ being brought as far as the _Seminal Root_ in either
Lobe, and according to the conduct thereof continuing still to move,
it must needs immediately issue into the same part whereinto the main
Branches themselves do, that is, into the _Radicle_. By which _Sap_,
thus bringing the several Tinctures of the parts aforesaid with it, being
now fed; it is no longer a meer _Radicle_, but is made also _Seminal_,
and so becomes a perfect Root.
The _Radicle_ being thus impregnate and shot into a root, ’tis now time
for the _Plume_ to rouze out of its Cloysters, and germinate too: In
order whereto, ’tis now fed from the Root with laudable and sufficient
Aliment. For as the Supplies and motion of the _Sap_ were first made
from the Lobes towards the Root, so the Root being well shot into the
Moulds, and now receiving a new and more copious _Sap_ from these; the
motion hereof must needs be stronger, and by degrees revert the primitive
_Sap_, and so move in a contrary course, _sc._ from the Root towards the
_Plume_; and, by the continuation of the _Seminal trunk_, is directly
conducted thereinto; by which, being fed, it gradually enlarges and
displayes it self.
The course of the _Sap_ thus turned, it issues, I say, in a direct Line
from the _Root_ into the _Plume_, but collaterally into the Lobes also;
_sc._ by those two aforesaid Branches which are obliquely transmitted
from the _Radicle_ into either Lobe. By which Branches the said _Sap_
being disbursed back into all the _Seminal Root_, and from thence
likewise into the _Parenchyma_ of the Lobes; they are both thus fed, and
for some time augmenting themselves, really grow; as in _Lupines_ is
evident.
Yet is not this common to all Seeds; some rot under-ground, as _Corn_;
being of a laxer and less Oleous substance, differing herein from most
other Seeds; and being not divided into Lobes, but one entire thick
Body. And some, although they continue firm, yet rise not as the great
_Garden-Bean_; in which therefore it is observable, that the two Main
Branches of the Lobes in comparison with that which runs into the
_Plume_, are but mean; and so insufficient to the feeding and vegetation
of the Lobes; the _Plume_, on the contrary, growing so lusty, as to mount
up without them.
Excepting a few of these two kinds, all other Seeds whatsoever, (which I
have observed) besides that they continue firm, upon the Vegetation of
the _Plume_, mount also upwards, and advance above the Mould together
with it; as all Seeds which spring up with dissimilar Leaves, the two
(for the most part two) dissimilar Leaves, being the very Lobes of the
Seed divided, expanded, and thus advanced.
The Impediments of our apprehension hereof are the Colour, Size and
Shape of the dissimilar Leaves. Notwithstanding, that they are nothing
else but the main body of the Seed, how I came first to phansie, and
afterwards to know it, was thus: First, I observed in general that the
dissimilar Leaves were never jagg’d, but even edg’d: And seeing the even
verges of the Lobes of the Seed hereto respondent, I was apt to think,
that those which were so like, might prove the same. Next descending
to particular Seeds, I observed first of the _Lupine_; that as to its
Colour, upon its advance above the Mould, it ever changed into a perfect
Green. And why might not the same by parity of Reason be inferr’d of
other Seeds? That, as to its size, it grew but little bigger than when
first set. Whence, as I discern’d (the Augmentation being but little)
we here had only the two Lobes: So, (as some augmentation there was) I
inferr’d the like might be, and that, in farther degrees, in other Seeds.
Next, of the _Cucumber_-seed. That, as to its Colour, often appearing
above ground in its Primitive white, from white it turns to yellow,
and from yellow to green, the proper colour of a Leaf: That, as to its
size, though at its first arise, the Lobes were little bigger than upon
setting; yet afterwards as they chang’d their Colour, so their Dimensions
also, growing to a three-four-five-fold amplitude above their primitive
size: But whereas the Lobes of the Seed are in proportion, narrow, short
and thick, how then come the dissimilar Leaves to be so exceeding broad,
or long and thin? The Question answers it self: For the dissimilar
Leaves, for very reason are so thin, because so very broad or long; as
we see many things, how much they are extended in length or breadth, so
much they lose in depth, or grow more thin; which is that which here
befalls the now effoliated Lobes. For being once disimprisoned from their
Coats, and the course of the Sap into them now more and more encreased,
they must needs very considerably amplifie themselves; and from the
manner wherein the _Seminal Root_ is branched in them, that amplification
cannot be in thickness, but in length or breadth: In both which, in some
dissimilar Leaves ’tis very remarkable; especially in length, as in those
of _Lettice_, _Thorn-Apple_, and others; whose Seeds, although very
small, yet the Lobes of those Seeds growing up into Dissimilar Leaves,
are extended an Inch, and sometimes more, in length; though he that
shall attempt to get a clear sight of the Lobes of _Thorn-Apple_, and
some others, by Dissection, will find it no easy Task; yet is that which
may be obtained. From all which, and the observation of other Seeds, I
at last found, that the dissimilar Leaves of a young Plant, are nothing
else but the Lobes or _main Body_ of its Seed: So that as the Lobes did
at first feed and impregnate the _Radicle_ into a _perfect Root_; so the
_Root_ being perfected, doth again feed, and by degrees amplifie each
Lobe into a perfect Leaf.
The Original of the dissimilar Leaves thus known, we understand, why some
Plants have none; because the Seed either riseth not, as _Garden-Beans_,
_Corn_, &c. Or upon rising, the Lobes are little alter’d, as _Lupines_,
_Pease_, &c. Why, though the proper Leaves are often indented round; the
dissimilar, like the Lobes, are even-edg’d. Why, though the proper Leaves
are often hairy, yet these are ever smooth. Why some have more dissimilar
Leaves than two, as _Cresses_, which have six, as the Ingenious Mr.
_Sharrock_ also observes; the reason whereof is, because the _Main
Body_ is not divided into two, but six, distinct Lobes, as I have often
counted. Why _Radishes_ seem at first to have four, which yet after
appear plainly two; because the Lobes of the Seed have both a little
Indenture, and are both plaited, one over the other. To which we might
add,
The use of the dissimilar Leaves is, first, for the protection of the
_Plume_; which being but young, and so but soft and tender, is provided
with these, as a double Guard, one on either side of it. For this
reason it is, that the _Plume_ in Corn is trussed up within a membranous
Sheath; and that of a _Bean_, cooped up betwixt a pair of _Surfoyls_; but
where the Lobes rise, there the _Plume_ hath neither of them, being both
needless.
Again, that since the _Plume_, being yet tender, may be injured not
only by the Air, but also for want of Sap, the supplies from the Root
being yet but slow and sparing; that the said _Plume_ therefore, by the
dissimilar Leaves, may have the advantage likewise of some refreshment
from Dew or Rain. For these having their Basis a little beneath that of
the _Plume_, and expanding themselves on all sides of it, they often
stand after Rain, like a Vessel of Water, continually soaking and
supplying it, lest its new access into the Ayr, should shrivel it.
Moreover, that since the dissimilar Leaves by their Basis intercept the
_Root_ and _Plume_, the greater and grosser part of the Sap may be by
the way deposited into those; and so the purest proceed into the yet but
young and delicate _Plume_, as its fittest Aliment.
Lastly, we have here a demonstration of the being of the _Seminal Root_;
which since through the colour or smallness of the Seed, it could not by
dissection be observ’d, except in some few; Nature hath here provided us
a way of viewing it in the now effoliated Lobes, not of one or two Seeds,
but of hundreds; the _Seminal Root_ visibly branching it self towards the
Cone and Verges of the said Lobes, or now dissimilar Leaves.