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              MICROG RAP HI A,                                    I53
Aic rofcope, it appears a large body, cover'd with a tough thick and bright
refleding 1kin very irregularly fhrunk and pitted, infbmuch that it is al.
mofl an impoflibility to find two of them wrinkled alike, fo great a va-
riety may there be even in this little feed.
   This, though it appear'd one of the moft promifing feeds for beauty to
the naked eye,yet through the AMicrofcope it appear'd but a rude mifhapen
feed, which I therefore drew, that I might thereby manifefi how unable
we are by the naked eye to judge of beauteous or lefs curious microfropi-
cal Obje&s; cutting fome of them in funder, I obferv'd them to be fili'd
with a greenifh yellow pulp, and to have a very thick hulk, in propor-
tion to the pulp.
            Obferv. X X I X. Of the Seeds of Tyme.
'1 Ilefe pretty fruits here reprefented, in the i8. Scheme, are nothing
  T elfebut nine feveral feeds of Tyrne; they are all of them in difler-
ing poflure,both as to the eye and the light; nor are they all ofthem ex-
adly of the fame fhape, there being a great variety both in the bulk and
figure of each feed ; but they all agreed in this,that being look'd on with
a Micro fope, they each of them exactly refembled a Lemmon or Orange
dry'd; and this both in Ibape and colour. Some of them are a little
rounder, of the fhape of an Orange, as A and B, they have each of
them a very conspicuous part by which they were join'd to their little
flalk,and one of them had a little piece of ltalk remaining on; the oppo-
fite fide of the feed, you may perceive very plainly by the Figureis very
copped and prominent, as is very ufual in Lemmons, which prominencies
are exprefs'd in D, E and F.
  They feem'd each of them a little creas'd or wrinckled, but E was
very confpicuoully furrow'd, as if the inward make of this feed had been
formewhat like that of a Lemmon alfo, but upon dividing feveral feeds
with a very fharp Pen-knife, and examining them afterward, I found
their make to be in nothing but bulk differing from that of Peasthat isto
have a pretty thick coatand all the reft an indifferent white pulp, which
fcem'd very clofe; fo that it feems Nature does not very much alter her
method in the tnanner of inclofing and preferving the vital Principle in
the feed, in thefe very fimall grains, from that of Beans, Peas, &c.
  The Grain affords a very pretty Objet for the AMicrofeope, namely, a
DifhOf Lemmons plac'd in a very little room; Thould a Lemmon or Nut
be proportionably magnify'd to what this feed ofTyme is,it would make
it appear as bigg as a large Hay-reek,and it would be to great wonder to
fee Homers Iliads, and Homer and all, cramm'd into fich a Nut-fhell. We
tmay perceive even in thefe fmall Grains, as well as in greater, how ctrl-
ous and carefull Nature is in preserving the feminal principle of Vege-
table bodies, in what delicate, ftrong and moff convenient Cabinets Dhe
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