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Show PL FL will produce’a fenfible Warmth, and feparate of 4 Plant is as various almoft the Authors : ings defines it to be it into Butter, and this Effe@ isvender’d ftill the moredifcernabletby The fetting of feveral Vowers together in Husks, and hanging themup in Strings. Barometer. And the Heat of Animal Bodi es is owing to the Agitation and Attrition of the Parts of thefe Juices againft each other, and the Sides of the Veflels. The fecond Manner of increafing the Effect of Elementary Fire, is by throwing a Quantity of moift or green Vegetables, cut “down while full of Sap, into a ‘large Heap, and prefling its fhe ror sieor oecoke the Fruit: yet this Author himfelf éon ‘ that this Definition is too narrow; for fome thofe Bodies which he allows to be Flowers them clofe down; by which they grow warm, hot, fmoak, and ‘break out into Flame. mitted into Definitions, Le fort defines it to be A third W ay, is by mixing certain cold Bodies: Thus Water and Spirit of Wine being firft warm’d, grow much hotter by being mixed; alfo Oil of Cloves, Cinnamon, €%c. being mix’d with Spirit of Wine, become ex- ceeding hot, and burft forth like Vulcano’s. The like Effects may be had fromfeveral hard and dry Bodies, as Sulphur andStee!filings. To conclude: Of Fire, and the Effects are remote from the Fruit. Ray fays it col Wordsfor the moft part, very often for the mof to whichit feems to ; or ofeither ts proper Coverings, if Thus the he Parevet & )Flower are; 1. the Ovar; which is the Rudiment ofF theESruit, and fo is properly the , Organ of Generation, 2. The Stil ch is a Body accompany- ing the Ovary, either arifing from the 'Top of it, or ftanding as an 4x/s in the Middle, with the E mbryons of the Seeds round it. The Summits or Apices, which are thofe af f Which Definition is ftill more defi ding by this uncertain Mode of ies that contain the Prolifick Powder, anafale Sperm in Animals; and lera Profeflot of BZotanyat Pa fines it to be a n flender ‘Threads, which k tender, fine- colour'd nerally the moft confpi- thereof depend all Fluidity of Humours, Juices, &c. all Vegetation, Putrefaction, Fer- mentation, Animal Heat, &e. s all the four Elements, Water, Air, Barth and nis biebidauilt ' ?, are very conducive to the Work of x” is thofé tender ae the other Parts of a eleven, being “3ree intellig opener: and no one of them more than who has not y this of Zire; I conclude, that thefe few Hints, Time; as Mr. ] well cps which I have co lected from the meft approv'd liable to this Objection, Authors, concerning the Nature and Proper- and alfo that itis That it may include fome Parts, which no ties of it, as they may beufeful, would not be Fora una eptable to the ingenious and ftudious Perfon ever call’d by the Name. Practicers of Horticuitur e, which induced me Root, or a Stalk, or a Leaf, are Parts ofa Plant unlike the reft in Form and Nature, to infert them here. See the Article Heat. having no Tube, and fo adhering to no EmFIR-TREE; vide Abies, ISTULAR FLOWERS, [Flores Fiftu- Jarves, or Fifula, Lat. a Pipe] fuch as are bryons; and thus, by Por are Flowers. e to the Number of their ] 1 petalous, Dipetalous, 1,ripetalous, " apetalous, €9c. The Structure ofF vs is indeed very various: but according to Dr Grew, the . 5 es have thefe three Parts in common, Y » the Foliation, and the adie y reckons that every perfec Flower amina, Apices, and Stylus or 2's Definition, Mbnt. ufien, ae Pa > compounded of manylong, hollow, {mall FLESH, (among Botanifts) is all the Subftance of any Fruit that is between the Outer Rind andthe Stone, or that Part of any Root that is fit to be eaten. FLORIFEROUS, [Florifer, Lat.] Bearing Flowers. 7 FLORIST, One who is converfant with or skill’d in Flowers, , HoaT FLORULOUS, [Fvornulus, Lat.] Flowery, full of Fl ow- ers; alfo Blofforning. FLOS AFRICANUS ; vide Tagetes , asis of Ufe inthe tion. Bir this too1 fective ; for that there are many Plants Flowers that have no Piftillu sare thofe in which are the ; the ame which sehen ul Word be taken to fignify the Embryon of the Fruit, or its Appendix : and many which _ But the late Mont. he are fuch in are “contained, i. e. the Parts are found in ‘the fame e the moft general Kind ; Lily, Tulip, Althea, , Sage, Tyme. ‘Struéture of Parts is much the fame where the Sexes are divided; the which con ftitute thedifferent Sexesin PI feeing they are fometimes found without any Covening, and that the Coats or Petals, W h ch immediately incompafs them, are defign’d © to cover and defend them: Bur (fays he) a ween them confifting in this, and Apices, i. e. the Male thefe Coats are the moft confpicuous and mo-t in thefe are feparate from the Piftils, fometimes on the fame Plants, and fomeondifferent oni g the Plants wwhich bear both Male Female Parts, but at a Diftance from therefore I give the Name of [ whatfoever Structure or Colour th ther they incompafs the Organ together, orcon tain only one © fome Parts depending on one of great meafure prevented from fome external Caules In which Senfe a Fluid ftands oppos’d to a Solid; and is by the excellent Sir Taac Newton defin’d to be one whofe Parts cafily give Place, or move out ofthe Way, on any Force impell’d upon them, and by that means do fo eafily move one over another. ‘Which nis much better than that at Des is a as aré in continual Motion : apparent, that vos Parts of all Ply 6 nor, that the Parts of fome Solid Bodies are not fo. Fjuidity is the State or Affe which denominates or renders them 7 ftands in direé&t Oppofition to Fi It is diftinguifh’d from Li dity, in that“the Idea of and the Property contain’d vy dain the Thing it felf: whereas that of Humi and implies Wetting, or Adhering, 7. ¢. fom thing that gives us the Senfation of Wetnel{3 o Moifture, and would for our Senfes eno Exiftence, but Thus melted Metals, Air, ‘Either, and even Smoak, and lame it ; Bodies, and not Li dry, and not leaving any them being ty and Humienfe of Moifture. Parts of any Bodies being fine fo difpos’d by Motion and Figt faces all manner of Ways. FlowerF Plant. We fidia the inoiore he Royal Gardenat Paris, that the Flowers, ftridly fpeaking, ought to be reckon’d aeOrgans call’d by the Name of Flower, t¢ thefe Coat Having Occafion to mention F/aids ‘and Fiuidity, in {peaking of the Properties of the Elements ir, Water, Fire, &e. | thought neceffary, in this Place, to give the following Account of that Property, which I have extraéted from the moft approv'd Authors, A Flnid or Fluid Body, is by fome defin’d to be a Body whofe Particles are but wed kly conneéted, their mutual Cohefion bein ina they can eafily flide over ont have no Chives. FLOS TRINITATIS; vide Viola. ae nor Seed. Tho’ a Flower is a Thing wel x0OWN, yet the Defini tion of this Part 5 are ( iftinguifh’d into Male, Female fiderable Diftance from the ae beautiful Part of the Compofition, which 3s := rengthen orpreferve it. which the Pifiljum or Stile is fc FLOS PASSIONIs ; vide Granadilla, FLOS SOLIS; vide Corona Solis. geet ER: A Flower is a natura l Proa eer which precedes the Fruit, and yields fach as want any of thefe Parts, mperfect Flowers. yft Plants thereis a Perianthum, Calin up, which is of a ftronger Conthan the er it felf, and defign’d Flowerslike Pipes. FLAMMULA JOVIS; vide Clematis | J n Placenta, together 4 are hardly to be ad- in order to beta te 15 of Ge moft part, with the Rudiments of the Frait. _ FL UIDITY, [Fiuiditas, of fluere, Lat. to ve mention’d: ach other, d < eckor d the Cucumber, Melon, urnfol, Wall. , Oak, Mr. ferves, That it is requifite they fhould be varioufly andfeparately agitated to zand ffro, and that they fhould touch one another but in fome Parts onlyof their Surf: Andtl fame Gentlemanfays, in his Hi/or: y of Fluidity, ute a That the Conditions requifite to cot y the three following : 5 ofits Parts: Thus. we fee theI j ng Metals into It them, and Parts veryfine and fi make them fluid. Andafter the fame manner do acid Menftruums diffolve them, fufpend And their Liquor, and render them fluid. that Fire turns the hard Bodyof commor Dif by almoft wholly int tho’ “tis not improbat Figure of thefe {m2 towards producing |
