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Show ee 174 Ibe Anatomy 5. §. Book IV: The fame mayalfo be {een about the end ofAngu/t or the be- ginning of September ina Tulip-Root. In which, theTwo Inmoft Shells dryer than the reft, ftand hollow, withthe little young Flower (which appears in Marchor April following ) inclofed nowin their Centre. Being thus kept warze anddry, le{tit fhouldeither perifh, or be precipitated upon the Winter, by {prouting too foon. 6. §. Fromhenceit is plain, That although the Flower appears before the Seed; yet if the comparifon be made betwixt the Flower and Seed of the fame year 3 the Seedis firft formed, and afterward the Flower. That is, the Seed, for which Nature choofes the Firft- born Sap, is formed in the fore part of the year: which work being finifhed, out of the lefS fend part of the Sap, the Flowers intended for the Sire and Matrix ofthe next years Seed ; is afterwards produced. 7. § THE true Time of the Generation of the Flower being know’n, it may alfo be an Inducement to make Tryal, for the bringing of many Flowers to growfairly in Winter,which are ufed to grow,that is, to appear, only in the Spring and Summer: fe. by keeping the Plants Book IV. of Flowers. by both, and that the Varieties of both be diftin¢tly reduced unto Ta bles. Which may be done, after the following, or fome other like manner. 3. §. And Firltfor the Leaves. The moft obvious Varieties of which, are in their Pofition, Size or Shape. 4. §. Leaves are faftned with, or without a Stalk. Without only clofé tothe Branch, as in Sonthiftle; or furrounding it, as in Thorow-Wax. 5. §. Both thefe ways, theyftandeither fingly, thatis, but one at the fame height 5 or more together. 6. §. More together, in Even or Odd Numbers. In Even Numbers, commonly Twoand Two, asin Sage, Polwms Sometimes Four, as in Crofs-wort, Madder, Herb True-Love, Pomum Maje3 or more, as, I think, in Woodrofé, &c. In Odd Numbers, Three, asinall Trefoyls, Strawberries; Five, in Pentaphil, Caftanea Equinas Seven,in Tormentil. warm, and therebyenticing the young lurking Flowers to come abroad, 7. §. The Sixes of Leaves are innumerable. It is therefore nece fary to reduce them toa Standard. And fo, they may be reckoned, Three 5 Swall, Mean and Great: with refpect to the Length of the The Appendix. Leaf, the Breadth, or both. From one Inch and under,all Leaves may be accounted small; from one Inch and over, to five Inches, Mean 4 from five and over, Great. eee Being a Methodpropofed, for the ready finding, by the Leaf and Flower, to what Sort any Plant belongeth. LTHOUGH manyhave beftowed extraordina@ ry Care and Induftry upon the fearching out, and 4 Defcription of Plants; and for the reducing of 4 them to their feveral Tribes: yet I will take leave, here to propofe a fhort Method whereby Learn6 f GilhCL: GED ers, feeing a Plant they know not, may be infor- med to what Sort it belongs, and fo be direGted where to find it defcribed and difcourfed of: For, except they have a Mafter to conduc them,which few haves they muft needs,byfeeking at random,lofe a great deal of time, which by a regular Enquiry might be faved. Befides, that what is learned by their own Obfervation, will abide much longer on their mind, than what they are only Poynted to, by another. 2. §. Nowthe moft Philofophickh wayofdiftinguifhing or forting of Plants, were bythe Characferiftickh Properties in all Parts, both Compounded, Conftituents, and Contents. But of the Compounded,the Seeds, and fomeother Parts, are oftentimes very minute: and the Roots always lie hid. Asalfo the Conftituent Parts, every where, without cuting and the ufe of Glafés, Norcan the Contents be accurately obferved other- wife. Sothat for the Ofe here intended, thofe Properties are thefiteft to be infifted upon, which are the moft Confpicnows, and in thofe Parts, where the Learner may the moft readily and without any difficulty take notice of them; as in the Flower and Leaf, The Flower hath Varieties enough of it If Butin regardit is often wanting, when the Green Leaf is not ; it is therefore convenient, that he be aflifted by 8. §. The shapes of Leaves are alfo numberle&. But the moft ob} vious diftin@ions which they admit of, are fuchas thefe; 9. §. Leaves are Membraneons, as the greater part's Squameous, as Abies , or Filamentous. Whichare folid,as in Fenil, Meum, Buphthaluum, Chamemile, Groundpine 5 or hollow, as in Onion. 10. §. Mezsbraneons, have all their main Fibres produced either from the Stalk, as in Holyoak; or from the middle Stem of the Leaf, as in moft. From the midle Stew, reciprocally, as in Scabious, or oppofitely, that is, one over againft another, as in Rofé : and both ways, at Acute Angles, asin mofts; or Right, as in Dandelion. 11. g. Again, they are different with refpe& to the Top, the Bot- tom, and the Sides. The Top is Thorny, asin Furz 5 or Unarmed. Unarmed, either Produced,that is, Poynted, or at lealt, Roundifh, asin Lamium, Ironwort; or elle Reduced, asin Woodforrel. And fo the Bot- tom, iseither Reduced towards the Top, as in Ground-Ivy, or Produced uponthe Stalk, asin Poplar, Bay, &c. 12. §. The Sides or Edges of the Leaf, are either of one and the fame Meafure, as commonly; or of divers, as in Doronicum. Both ways they are Even, asin Syringe, Mous-ear; or Uneven. The Uneven, are Prickly, as Holly, Eryngium, Thifile; or Unarmed. Unarmed, are Infected, or Refeéted. Infetted deeply, that is, Lobed, as Golden Liverwort, Clematis Peregrina; or with thallow Infédions, as in moft. And fo, Indented, or Scallopped: the former, when the Azgleis made withStraight Lives,as in Dandelion; the latter,with Crooked, as in Thalirum, Refected, that is, both Lobed, and Infected, or when upon the greater Infections, there are otherlefler ones, as in Wild-Clary, Lovage, Majfterwort. 13. §. THE moft Confpicuous Varictics of Flowers, are in their Pofition, Size, Shape, and Colour. 14. §. Moftare faftned with Stalks ; but many without. Some- times, they are placed round about the Brawch, that is, Coronated, as in | (ii iN | Ii Tn Th |