The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun: With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereonGrew, Nehemiah
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The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun: With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereon
Grew, Nehemiah
Botany -- Pre-Linnean works; Plant anatomy
Page 28, “ruus” changed to “runs” (which runs into the _Plume_)
Page 93, “and and” changed to “and” (the _Lignous Body_, and from the
production)
Page 99, “Rooots” changed to “Roots” (Of Trunk-Roots and Claspers.)
Page 121, “Leavs” changed to “Leaves” (the Leaves above-named)
Page 126, “althoegh” changed to “although” (although they are various)
Page 126, “to to” changed to “to” (in some resemblance to a _Stags-Horn_)
Page 171, “transpareut” changed to “transparent” (on the other,
transparent;)
Fig. 16, “The The” changed to “The” (The _Cortical Body_, or _Barque_.)
Punctuation and word spacing were amended without note; spelling remains
as printed.
THE ANATOMY OF VEGETABLES
Begun.
With a General Account of _Vegetation_ founded thereon.
CHAP. I.
_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.
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