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Show Book IV, taktke. THE ANATOMY CONTENTS OFF wl EVE FLOWERS Second Part. CO HGAVE a ee Barats PART IL Of th EMPALEMENY. GACein CTE A Pat Of the FOLIATURE. Of th EMPALEME NT: Cu eA Pea <S NE XT proceed to the Flower. Of the ATTIRE SEMINIFORM. Where I intend not to repeat thofe things, which have been by Me alreadynoted in the Firs# Iook. Andthe forego- CHAP LV. ing Difcourfe of Leaves, will excufe me from di- vers particulars, common to Thefe and the Flomer, 2y I fhall here therefore remarque fome things not be- Of the FLORID ATTIRE. fore mentioned, or but iz tranfitu , and fuch as are moreparticular to the Flower. 2. §. And Firft, it may be noted 3 That where the Leéves of the GHAR. V.- Flower are few thofe of the Empalement or Green Border, are either Of the US E of the ATTIRE. ofthe fame Number, or juft halfas many, whether even, or odd. So in Leneanthenum and Chickweed, there are Five Léavess inthe former Five Empalerss in the latter, Ten. In Great Celandine, there are GH Awe. VI Of the TIME of the Generation of the Flower. The Appendix. Beinga MET HOD propofed, for the ready finding, by the Leaf and Flower,to what Sort any Plant belongeth. Four Leaves, and but Two Evmpalers, and fo in Poppy. The Arith- metick of Nature being every where fuitable to Her Geometry. 3- §, OF this Part of the Flower it is likewife obfervable, That it is rarely, if ever, entire or one piece, but parted into diverslittle Leafy Pales, efpecially in all F/owers with the Florid Attire, as of Marigold, Daify andthe like ; being fo numerous, as to make a Doxble, and often a Treble, Quadruple or Quintuple Border. Whereby theyare aptly defigned, not only to proted the Leaves of the Flower in the Bud; andafter their Expanfion, to keep them tite: but alfo, by receding, Bredthways, one from another, and fo making a greater Circle, gra- dually to give wayfor the full Growth and fafe {preading of the At tire, THE Which, inregard it confilts of Partsfo exquifitely tender, were ia Dd 2 it P ™ 3: |
