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Show i Book I. Book I The Anatomy be folid, and for fome time after their firft formation, are entire; yet isa Concave Body in-its fhape very well refembling the Fiftulous are they really hollow 5 and their fide, or fides; which were at firft entire, at length crack afunder: And that moreover the Concave of met is not a meer vacuity, but fill’dup with a numberof minute Particles, in form of a Powder. Which, though commonto all Semets, within its Concave the Third and innermoft part of the Swit, fc. Pouches of Wake-Robin, or of Dragon. 20. §. 14. §. which are of the fame nature with thofe of a sewet, though not fo copious. So that all Flowers have their Powders or Globulets. .The whole Aftzre may in Affer Per, Blewbotile, &c. where the Suits are Somtimes, and I think ufu- ally, fo as to hang a little downbythe midle, in the manner and figure ofa Kidney 5 as in MaHows. Their Cleft or Crackis fometimesfingle, but for the moft part double: At thefe Clefts it is that they disburfe their Powders ; which as they ftart out, and ftand betwixt the two Lips of each Cleft, have fome refemblance to the common Sculpture of a Pomegranate with its Seeds looking out at the Cleft of its Rind. This muft be obferv’d when the Clefts are recently made, which ufu- ally is before the expanfion of the Flower. 15. ¢. The Particles of thefe Pomders, though like thofe of Mealor other Duft, they appear noteafily to have any relugarfhape 3 yet upon ftri& obfervation, efpecially with the affiftance of an indifferent Glafs, it doth appear, That they are a Congeries, ufually, of fo manyperfect Globes or Globulets; Sometimes of other Figures, but always regular. ‘That which obfcures their Figwre is their being fo fmall: In Dogs-Mercury, Borage, and very many more Plants, they are extreamly fo. In Mallows, and fome others, more fairly vifible. 16. §. Some of thefe Powders, are yellow, as in Dogs-Mercury, Goats-Rue, &c. and fome of other Colours: But moft of them I think are white; and thofe of yellow Henbane very elegant; the dis- burs'd Powers whereof, to the naked eye, are white as Snow 5 but each Globulet, through a Glafs, tranfparent as Cryftal; which is not a fallacy from the Gla/s, but what wefee in all tranfparent Bodies whatfoever, lying in a Powder or {mall Particles together The Parts of this Altire, {ce in Tab. 4. But efpecially, in the Figures belonging to the Second Jart of the Fourth Wook, ‘ 17. §. The Florid Attire, is commonly knownby the blind and rude Name of Thrums as in the Flowers of Marigold, Tanjie, &c. Howin adequateits impofition is, obferyation will determine. For the feveral Thrums or rather Suits, whereof the Attire is made up, however elfe they may differ in various Flowers, in this agree, that they are ever confiftentof more than one, fometimes of Two, and for 3“5 the molt part of Three Pieces ( for which I call them suits ) and each Piece of a different, but agreeable and comely form. 18. §. The outer Part of every Suit, 1s its Floret : whofe Body or Tube is divided atthe top ( like that of the Comffip ). into five diftina Leaves. So that a Floret, is the Epitome of a Flower : and »13.b. is all the Flower that many Plants, as Mugwort, Tanfie, and others, have. What the Learred Sir Thomas Brown obferveth of the Treat. ofth he Number Five, as to the Leaves of the Flower, is {till more univerfally holding in thee of the Floret, Qxincunx. i _ 19. §- Uponthe Expanfion of the Floret; the next Part of the Suitis froma within its Tube brought to fight ; which we may ( with refi c {pect to that withinit ) call the sheath. For this alfo, ike the Foret, is l i i i Mi | I | Hoa) the two halves. 21. g. About the faid Point efpecially, there appears, Globuleis, Thefe Sewets are fomtimes faftned fo, as to ftand ere& above their Chive, as thofe of Larks-heel. The Sheuth, after fome time, dividing at the top, from Blade advanceth and difplayes it felf This Part is not hollow, as the other two, but folid; yet at itsPoint, iscommonly, divided into yet in fome, and particularly thofe of a Tulip or a Lilly, beinglarger, - is more diftinGtly obfervable. 2 i Plants. large, be plainly obferved without a Gla/s. The Parts ofthis Astire, See in Tab. 4. But efpecially in the Figures belonging to the second Part of the Fourth Book. 22. §. The ufe ofthe Attire, how contemptibly foever we may look upon it, is certainly great. And though for our own ufe we value the Leaves of the Flower, or the Foliation, moft; yet of all the three Parts, thisin fome refpeéts is the thoyceft, as for whofe fake and fervice the other two are made. The ufe hereof, as to Ornament and Diftindion, is unqueftionable 5 but is not all. As for Diftin@ion, though, by the help of Glaffes, we may make it to extend far 3 yet in a paflant view, whichis all we ufually make, we cannot fo well. As for Ornament, andparticularly in reference to the Semets, we may ask, If for that meerly thefe were meant, then why fhould they be fo made asto break open, or to contain any thing within them ? Since their Beauty would be as good if they were not hollow ; and is better before they crack and burft open, than afterwards. 23: §. Other ufes hereof therefore we muft acknowledge, and may obferve. One is, for food ; for Ornament and Diftin¢ction to us, and for Food to other Avimals. I will not fay, but thatit may ferve even to thefe for Diftinétion too, that they may be able to know one Plant from another, and in their flight or progrefs fettle where they like beft : and that therefore the varieties of thefefmall parts are many, and well obferved by them, which we take no notice of. Yet the finding out of Foodis but in order to enjoy it: Which, that it is provided for a vaft number oflittle Avimals in the Attires of all Flowers, obfervation perfwades us to believe. For why elfe are they evermore here found? Go from one Flower to another, great and fmall, you fhall meet with none untaken up with thefe Guefts. In fome, and particularly the Swz-Flower, where the parts cf theAttire, and the Avimals for which they provide, are larger, the matter is more vifible. We muft not think, that God Almighty hath left any of the whole Family of his Creatures unprovided for; but as the Great Mafter , fome where or other carveth out toall; and that for a great numberof thefé little Folk, He hath ftored up theirpeculiar provifions in the Aftires of Flowers 5 each Flower thus becoming their me Lodging and their Dining-Room, both in one. 24. §. Wherein the particular parts ofthe Attire may be moredif- tinctlyferviceable, this to one Avimal, and that to another, I cannot fay : Or to the fame Animal, asa Bee, whetherthis for the Honey, another for their Bread, a third forthe Wax; Or whether all only ee rom |
