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.