Note 18 — Chapter II · Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus. 1583-1760.
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
We find it stated in Theophrastus that if the pith of the vine is destroyed the grapes contain no stones; this evidently points to a still higher antiquity for the view that the seeds are formed from the pith; see the De causis plantarum, v. ch. 5, in the ‘Theophrasti quae supersunt opera’ of Schneider, Leipzig, 1818.