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Show ‘The Anatomy CHAP. Book IV. Iv. N THIS Aftire there is alfo much Elegant Variety, according to the Defeription we have given of it in the Firff Wook, It always confifts of feveral Suits; Ten, Twenty, Fourty, a Hundred, or more, according to the Bignefs of the Flower. And every Sxit moft commonly, of three diftin& Parts, all of a Regular, but Different Figure. The utmoft Part, is always like a little Flower with Five Leaves and a Tubular Bafe, like that of Com/lip. So that every Flower with the Florid Attire, Embofomes, oris, a Pofy of 2. §. of Flowers. 171 more, the Aftire is not feparate from the Foliatu re, fo as to ftand within that in one entire Poff 5 but every Leafof the Flomer hath its own Attire apart. For the fake of which, the Baffs ofevery Leafis formd into a little Tube or Pipe, whereby it embofo mes its own Attire within Tab. 62. it felf, Confift Of the FLORID ATTIRE. perfect Flowers. Book IV. ; ing commonly of 70 Parts, a Sheath and a Blade: the Leafit {elf anfwering to the Floret in other Flowers. 8. §. In fome Plants, befides the Attire or Pofy in the midle of the Flower 5 the Leaves alfo have each their own to Marigold : yetthis, as I take it,confilting onlyof one themfélves, as in fingle anfwers to the Blade 5 the Leafit felf being as the sheath. Part,which Tab, 61. ; 9. §. In many Plants, this Florid Attire is very large; only the Suéts, but alfo the feveral Parts. whereof every fothat not Suit confilts, Typ 6 being throughly ripe and well blown open, are all vifible tothe bare Eye, asin Kvapweed, and all the Thiftle Kind. This Attire is all the Flower, that this fort of Plants have ; being, though Evpal' d, yet with- out any Foliature. to. §. And fometimes, thereis little or no Flower befides this Ar- tire, although extream fmall, as in Golden Rod, Wormw ood and others. Whereit may be noted, That the Medicine called Wormfeed or Semen Santoni ci, is no Sort of Seed, but the Buds of {mall Flowers , or of the Florid Attire of that Plant, In fome Flowers, every one of thefe Florets, is encompafled with an Hedg of Hairs; and every Hair branched on both fides almoft like a sprig of Firs as in Affer Atticus, Golden-Rod , and others. 3. §. The Bafe of the Floret is ufually Cylindrick, but fometimes Square, asin French Marigold. And the Leaves hereof which, for the moft part, are Smooth onthe Infide, in the fame Flower areall over Hairy, And the Edges of thefe little Flowers, are frequently Ridged, or asit were, He md, like the Edge of a Band. ’ The midlemoft of the Three Parts, which I call the Sheath, is ufually faftened towards the Top, or elfe at the Bottom of the Floret. This is rather indented, than parted into Leaves. The Surface feldom Plain or Even, but wrought with Five Ridges, and as many Gutters running almoft Parallel from the Top to the Bottom. 5. §. The Inmoft Part, which I call the Blade, runs through the “hollow of the Two Former, andfo is faftned, with the Foret, to the convex of the Seed-Cafe. The Headand Sides of this Part, is always befet round about with Globulets, commonly through a Gla/z, as big as a Turnep-feed, ora great Pins-Head. In fome Plants growing clofe to the Blude, as in the common Marigold ; inthe French, and others, upon Pedicils orlittle flender Stalks. , as the Blade {pringeth up from within the Sheath, are {till rubed off, and fo {tandlike a Powder onthem both, Andfometimes, as in Cichory, they feem to grow on he Inf e Sheath, ifit be fplit with a fmall Piz: as alfo in Kuapit nthey arenumerous. Yet inthe Seed-like Attire, always than in the Florid 2 Qn vays divided into Two, and fometimes into e Parts, asin Cichory; which, by degrees, cur. after the mannerof Scorpion-Grafs. 7- §. ‘hee as : The Defcription i nowgiven, t moby he Kind, 3 , Chamemile, and 1K it in -d, Moufear and all the Lutybou ry Ufe hereof, I have fpoken in the 9 First Wook; and particularly, of the Globulets or Ch 5 ® {mall Particles within the Thece of the Sced-like At. ~ @ tre, and uponthe Blades of the Florid, [have con® jecturd, That they are that Body which Bees gather ty and carry upon their Thighs, and is common LDCsWUVed their Bread. For the Wax they carry inly callittle Flakes intheir Chaps: but the Bread is aKind of Powder 5 yet fome; g what moift, as are the faid little Particles of the Attire, 2.§. But the Primary and chief Uf of the Attire refpect to the Plant it felf; and fo appears to be very is fuch, as hath great and necef- fary. Becaufe, eventhofe Plants which have no Flower or Foliature, are yet fome wayor other Attir’d 3 either with the Seminif orm, or the Florid Attire, “Sothat it feems to perform its fervice to the Seed, as the Foliature, to the Fruit. 3. §._ Indifcourfe hereof with our Learned Szvilian Profefl or Sir Thomas Millington, he told me, he conceived, That the 4ftire doth ferve, as the Male, for the Generation ofthe Seed, 4. §. LTimmediately reply’d, That I was of the fame Opinion ; and gave him fome reafons for it, and anfwered fome Objectio ns, which might oppofé them. But withall, in regard every Plant or Male and Female, that I was alfo of Opinion, That itis op feéSnus ferveth for Ee 2 the |