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Show IV. Bookk The Anatomy__Poo e 164 ee — Jofe, Feeail would be killed or fpoyled before it came to or as po gee Women, gradually ikea their Laces; as f{pread, to Lappets, feveral into Stomachers their fplit to ufe robe = a the Poffure of the Parts in the Empalement \efs faitabs oo being filed one juft over another, but alternately, Whereby the Palesor Pannciles of every Under-Order, lervete Ee made by the Recefs of the Upper: And fo, notwithftanding they all make more roome, yetall confpire to keepthe Aer out. the 5. §. Itisalfo worththe notice, That, for the fame purpofe, Pulpy but Edgesat leaft, of the feveral Pales, are neither Riigous DOr fo many extream fine tranfparent Skis, asin Chamemile, , Whereby for any Aer they clofe fo exa@ly one over another, that it is impoffible tocreep in, or any Steams ufeful to the Aftire or Seed, shi haftily to perfpire. As we ufe, when we have puta Cork into a Bottle, to tic a Bladder over it. Book IV. of Flowers. 6. §. In Ladies-Bower, the Leaves are neither laped one over another, as is moft ufual, nor fet Edge to Edge, as fometimes, but Side Tab. 4 to Side, anfwerable to their Shape, and the Diftribution of their Fis * oe bres. Their broad Tops being alfo rowled up fo as to make a Cone. In Ladys-Looking-Glafs, they ftand alfo Side to Side, but in a different manner: in the Former with the Sides ftanding inward, but here, bearing outward. 7+ §. Inthe Marvel of Peru, the Fold is likewife very peculiar. For, befides the feveral Plates, about Six, whereby the Floweris ga- ab. 542. thered in the Midle 5 the Top ofit is alfo gathered up by as_manydiftin& Plates, underneath the former ; and thefe romled or wreathed up together fo exaétly, that the like could hardly be imitated bya very dextrous Hand. 8. §. OF the Hairs upon Flowers and their Use to the Attire, [ Ch. 5. havealfo fpoken in the Firft ISgok, I thall here add, That theyare likewife of Oje to the Leaves themfelves, that is, for their clofer and falter Conjunition. For of fome Flowersit is obfervable, That they are all over fmooth, faving on their Edges, which are border’d with Fringes of Hair 5 as of Spauifh Broome, Dulcamara, and others: In Tab. 53. which, the Hairs on the Edge ofone Leaf, are fo complicated, or at lea{t indented, with thofe of another, that all the Leaves feem to be but one piece. Nature feeing it fit, by this meanss to tie them toge- GHA Er ther, left they fhould be expanded before it be duetime. Of the FOLIATURE. Sex HE Leaves of the Flower are folded up in fuch “SE Sort, asis moft agreeable to their own Shape, and &Y that of their inclofed Attire: whereof I have }) given Inftances in the Fz? %00k, I thall here = add fome further Remarques. 2. g. The Leaves of the Flower of Blatta- ria, although of different Size and Shapes are “SS fo lapped one over another, as to make an Equilateral Pentangle. ; 3. §. The Spiral Fold, which is proper tothe Flower, and never feenin the Green Leaves 5 as it is it felf immediately vifible on the Surface, fo bycutting off the top of the Flower before it is expanded, feems alfo to make a Helix 5 asin Perwincle, the larger Comvoluulus, &c. 4. §. Infome Flowers, where the Attire is lofty or fpreading, asin Holioak , together with the Spiral Fold, the Leaves are all at the top tacked down a little; thereby making a blunter Cone, and fo a more ample Pyramid for the inclofed Atizre. ; 5. §. In Poppy, although the Leaves are extraodinary broad, yet being but few, and inclofing a fmall Attire 5 they could not be well re- duced to anyregular Fold, without leaving fach a Vacuity, as by being filled with Aer, might be prejudicial to the seed. For which reafon, they are cramb'd up within the Empalement by hundreds oflittle Wrinckles or Puckers as if Three or Four fine Cambrick Handcherchifs were thruft into ones Pocket. 9. §. ManyFlowers inftead of Hairs, are befet round about, with a great Number of {mall Parts, not ending in a Poynt, but having a Head. Sometimesoval, as in Sap-Dragon, like the Horns of a Butter« fly, or a Plummers Sodering-Iron. But ufually Globular, as in Deadly Nightfhade, like fo many little Mufbrooms {prouting out of the Flower. Io, §. Out of thefe Heads, doth fometimesiffue a Gummy or Balfamick Fuyce, From whenceproceeds that Clamminefs of fome Flowers, whereby, being handled they ftick to our Fingers, asdothole of Blataria, and of Marigold; and thofe of Colus Fovis,where the faid Heads are fo foft and fuccnlent, that they refemble fo manylittle Drops of Balfame. The Clammine{s which is felt upon frefh Carduus, may per- haps proceedfrom thelike Cauje.’ tr. § THE Number of the Leaves of the Flower hath been noted bythe Learned Sir Thomas Brown, to be ufually Five. And this Treat. of Nature fo far affeGteth, that manytimes where the Leaves ofthe fame the Quine. a are of a different Size, yet they keep to this Number, as in Tzb. 54. attaria, 12. §. Talfoadd, That eventhofe Flowers, which are not properly parted into Leaves, have yet their Tops ufually divided into Five great Scallops ; as thofe of Toad-Flax, Sxap-Dragon, Coded- Arfmart, Clary, Broom, and others. And when the Flower hath more than Five, even many times Five Leaves 5 yet the Top of each Leaf is indented into Five Parts 5 asin Scorzonera, Cichory, and all the Intybous Kind, with Tab, 5 he manyothers. 13. g. ‘ From whence andotherlike Infeances, it may feem, That ly \ itil \ : there is fome certain Species of Salt in Nature, and that in moft Plants, of whofe Agency there are ftill fome Footffeps or other in the Flower. 14. § A ii! i nh i | 1 |