164 en; Anatomy i Book IV. 
it pinched up too clo, would be killed or fpoyled before it came to 
the Birth. As Teeming Women, gradually flaken their Laces; or as 
Taylors ufe to fplit their Stomachers into feveral Lappets, to {pread, as 
their Belly rif. ; 
4. $. Nor is the Pofture of the Parts in the Empalement lef fuita: 
ble: not being filed one juft over another, but alternately. Whe: 
the Palesor Pannciles of every Under-Order, ferveto ftop up the gaps 
made by the Recefs of the Upper. And fo, notwithftanding they all 
make more roome, yetall confpire to keep the Aer out. 
5. $. It is alfo worth the notice, That, for the fame purpofe, the 
Edges at leaft, of the feveral Pales, are neither Fibrows,nor Pulpys but 
fo many extream fine tranfparent Skins, asin Chamemile. Whereby 
they clofe fo exactly one over another, that it is impoffible for any Aer 
tocreep in, or any steams ufeful to the Attire or Seed, over haltily to 
perfpire. As we ufe, when we have puta Cork into a Bottle, to tie a 
Bladder over it. 
CHAP IL 
Of the FOLIATURE. 
y HE Leaves ofthe Flower are folded up in fuch 
Sort, asis moft agreeable to their own Shape, and 
that of their inclofed Attire: whereof I have 
S) given Inftances in the Fi Book, I fhall here 
add fome farther Remarques. 
2. $. The Leaves of the Flower of Blatta- 
) ria, although of different Size and shapes are 
fo lapped one over another, as to make an 
Equilateral Pentangle. 
3. $. The Spiral Fold, which is proper to the Flower, and never 
Tab. 54+ fecnin the Green Leaves 5 as it is it {elf immediately vifible on the Sur- 
face, fo by cutting off the top of the Flower before it is expanded, 
{cemsalfo to make a Helix 5 as in Perwincle, the larger Convolvulus, &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 Come, and lo a more 
ample Pyramid for the inclofed Attire. 
5- $. In Poppy, although the Leaves are extraodinary broad, yet 
being but fer ind inclofing a fmall Attire 5 they could not be well re- 
Tab. 54. duced to any regular Fold, without leaving fuch a Vacuity, as by being 
filled with Aer, might be prejudicial to the Seed. For which reafon, 
they are cramb'd up within the Espalemont by hundreds of little 
Wrinckles or Puckers3 as if Three or Four fine Cambrick Handcherchifs 
were thruft into ones Pocket. 
Tab. 54. 
Ch.5. 
Tab. 54. 
