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Show Bool; I. Part IV. Book I. Part IV. The port; of Generation in Plants. 66; ' Flower‘S, the'finer walls encircling the curious begun fabrick of the or-~ Tr, mm, C H A P. gans of Generation in Plants, are embellifhed with various colours, magnL colours, tudes, and figures, fome havea round concave lh‘ape beginning in a finaller high 2wa XX X V L origen, and afterward are more and more dilated after the mariner of a Bell m as in Fox-gloves, and all forts of Bell-flowers, whofe upper margent s ard 0f the Parts of generation in T/rmz‘r, adorned with equalities, as not divided into jagged partitions ' Ivers ranks of Plants grow young every year, and to that end Nature hath provided Seminal inflruments to render them fruitful in order to propagation. The gay Spring is expreffive of its Joy in putting on new apparrel, as cloathed with feveral Greens, and beautified with fine Frondage and Foliage, Fiowersthc prefcrvativcs a: Seeds. and the Plants have their heads crowned with Flowers, adorned with variety of colours and finells; the firl't court our Eyes with pleafant profpeé'rs, and the other treat our Noflrils with a grateful fragrancy. Flowers, the finer drefi; of Plants, and the Heralds of the teeming Spring, are made by Nature to guard the tender fitl't-draughts of VVombs and Feeds, wherein fruitful Venm feemeth to frolique her felf in various births of Plants, (as full of delight as admiration) which fpeak the infinite wililom and The (up g'larrleih the ' iicivcr. which give them a great ornament, as is confpieuous in a double Primrofe, $1333" Flowers, the ornaments of Plants, and the prefervarives of the fine Ru« diments, relating to the Organs of Generation, are made up of divers parts : The firft that accofteth our Eyes, is the Cup, as the Bafe, guarding and under- propping the Flower, and is adorned in feveral Plants, with a diflbrent {hape and file, which is more fingle in Olives, Auranges, and Limons, whofe whofe upper extremity of the {talk growing more enlarged, hath the Cup E‘ggf‘m‘" fprouting out of it, and after the double leaves of the Flower are rendred crifped, and the more long leaves of the Flowers are divided in the top into many partitions, and this Plant is adorned toward its lower region, with diant crowns, compofed of many fmall Fibres, and little Veficles, befetting their lnterllices, and when the Flowers are withered in thefe Plants, the Cups remain affixed to the Fruit, as Mal/iglnm h .th obIErved. In Plants endued with Cods, the Cups are more indented, and have deeper incifures, and more numerous Leaves, as in Shepherds-pouch, and the like; in Buglofs, Primrofes, Borage, Mallows, (9%. the Cups are adorned with one rank of Leaves (different in number, magnitude, and figure) but: " teatime, io ~soanm. parted into fix fcolops, as fo many finall Leaves, within the covert of thefc $32335" Flowers are enclofed the flamina and flylm of the Plant, which are the rudi- °f 5" "1‘72" merits of the infiruments relating to its propagation. The Flowers of Milkwort have a curious frame, and have many Leaves, in whofe center arifeth 3 Tube (cut into two Leaves) in which fpringeth up a Compage made up of many fine threads; fomerimes the flowers of this Plant are fevered from each other in more deep incifions, and all take their rife from one Cup. Sometimes the Flowers of Plants are crowned with many ranks of Leaves The Flower: power of the Omnipotent Parent, Flowers fpringing out of tender (boots, are encircled with Cups as with ra- ii lrntchnps or" llowcrs. But the flowers of Hyacinth, defcribed by Mathiolws, are many, crowning along fialk, out of and upon which they fpring and lean, and are beau~ tified With a round hollow figure, and c0mpofed of a thick fubi'tanc e coated with Purple, fomewhat inclining to Green, and in its upper confines, are The new"; fome other Plants have divers rows of Cups feated within one another, and do fpring from a double circle, as in Arborefcent Mallows, in wihch the lower rank is intigrated of lefs Cups, and the next of greater; and in Plants, which are framed of very minute Flowers, the Cups have various ranks, lying within each other like lo many flakes, and in Dayfies, Blew-bottles, @w. as Molpig/Jim hath difcovcred. And Hartichoacks have divers ranks of Leaves lift one above another, which are fo many rows of Cups ordained by Nature to preferve their Flowers, and out of the {talks firft arifc the thick Leaves, and afterward thinner and finallcr, which are feared in fuch order as to make a body fomewhat refembling a Pine-Apple, which do fliade the flower contained in the middle. Cups are inl'iituted by Nature as the fupporters of Flowers, and thefe again are fine contexturcs, overfpreading the delicate principles of \Vombs and lecdsof Plants, which are their end and perfeétion as the firft fruits, H‘Kl earnell oi propagation: Nature being atmulous of a kind of Eternity, as an,hitious ropn'lerveit {elf in all orders of Entities, by innumerable repeated afis of Generation. ‘ Flchrs, doubles Flowers, and hath no flamina nor fiylm, which fpring up out of the [talks in mol't Plants within the enclofures of Flowers; but in this the lower parts of them are hired with Yellow, where the flamim fprout out in other Plants : And Flowers are not only furnilhed with a fine contexture of Leaves, but withfiamim too, which are a kind of Filaments furrounding theflylm, the rudiment of the uterus in Plants. The Cuckow-pimle hath a Flower endued with a rare f'trué‘ture, in re- Tasman?!" ference to its flame", and many fmall Flowers the origens of Seeds ( by which Sioccffc‘suaf they are nouriflied ) above which divers fiyliform proceffes [hoot out, about 12133332: them; a little higher, are feared fome fniall bodies, compofed of double fiz‘km‘H'mf Leaves, in which many minute, yellow, round bodies are contained, and at lal'r an oblong, firaight, yellow body fliooteth up, made up of many Cdobules. This fine Pintle is concave, integrated of many reticular Fibres paffing through the fyltems of many little round Compages. The f'cruétureof this Plant in reference to its Seminal Organs, is excellently defcribed by Learned Malpigbiws, The Honour of our Art. Amt. Plantar. p. 4.9. In Ara infigue efl flame", xi Cauliculo firpm Calicem, qui totum ambit flarem, plurafemimtm incboamema few flofmli eminent, qnz' tandem exarefcente pericarpio, turgent, é» femimz foe/em 5 fliperiru erumpnm flylzflirarrcr appendices, fipra qmos exigmz quaedam turgent corpora, qme gamma qnafz folm compommtur, quibu: lnrei quidam orbiculi, weluti flamifm, contmmmr; tandem 0510;1ng attollitur luteum corpm,glolmlir exrimmm; huyufozorli perloqgum, roam", comm/um efl, filifq; ligneis firm, retitulariter implicit", occupaturg relzqnum wero lignez'ofifilulor, in globulorum congeriem [Wot/M814, perwaahtur. ngentibur orbitularibur corporibnr, quilm: flaminum topztulo replcntur, ext firmmé‘, continents Capfula, fora/s prorlezmtglobuli minimi, 6V" dijpcngumur. The flamimz or threads are not the meanefl: parts conflitnting the Flowers filgfiifliim of Plants, and are various in number, fize, fhape, and origination. H hhh h h hh Long plants. Battli- |