The Anatomy ~ Book IV, 
Tab. 55. 
Bia. P. 2. 
$. 65, 66, 
67. 
B. 1. Ch.5. 
14. $. The Number of the Leaves, as hath been faid, iscommonly 
Five. Yetfome Flowers have fewer, and fome more, and that with 
Conftancy, in divers Numbers, from One to One and Twenty; perhaps 
in all, fo far. The Flower of Acanthus Syriacus, is in a manner one 
fingle Leaf, that of Monks-Rubarb, Three-Leav'd s of Poppy, Crofi« 
wort, Radifh, and many others, Four-Leav'd ; the greater Number of 
Flowers, Five-Leavd; of White Hellebore, Tulip, Onion, and moft 
Plants with Bulbous Roots, Six-Leav'ds of Wild-Crowfoot, Seven- 
Leav’d 5 of French Marigold, commonly Eight-Leav'd ; of Flower-de- 
Ince, Nine-Leav'ds of Chickweed, Ladies: Mantle, 
the Number 5. For 9, is Twice 3 13, Thrice; and 25, Five times 5 run- 
ning into it fel£ 
15. $. THE Conftituent Parts of the Flower are the fame asthofe 
of the Leaf, fè. the Parenchyma or Pulp,and the Veffels. But in the Bafıs 
or bottom of the Flower, the Parenchyma is commonly much more fpox- 
gy and dry, than in the Leaves ; conteining, after the Flower is open’d, 
little or no Sap, but only a dry and warm der. Which ftanding con- 
tinually under the Seed,haftens the Maturation or due Exiccation there- 
of: as we ufe to dry Maulted Barly over a warm Kiln. 
16. § The Vefels ofthe Flower, are both for Sap and for Aer, as 
well as in other Parts, And both of them fometimes, even in the shiz 
of the Flower 5 as may be argued from its being ftained with divers 
Colours; produced as hath formerly been fhewed, by the mixed 
Tindures of the faid Vefels. Thefe Colours, in many Flowers, as Tu- 
lips, as they are in the Shin it (elf, fo therein only; the Pulp of the 
Leaf being white. 
17. $. The Lignons or Sap-Veffls are fewer,and the Aer-Vefféls fmal- 
ler in the Flower, than in the Leaf. And therefore it is very difficult 
to obferve the latter by Glafes 5 efpecially the Proportion which they 
hold to the other Parts. But if you break the Leaves of fome Flowers, 
with very great gentleneß; they may hereby be Unroaved or drawn 
ont, as in the Green Leaves, to fome vifible length ; and their different 
Number in divers Flowers may be difcerned. 
18. $. THE Of ofthe Flower or of the Foliature whereof we 
are {peaking, is various; as hath formerly been fhewed. I now only 
add, That one Ufe hereof feemeth to be, for the Separation of the 
more Volatile and ftronger sulphur of the Plant. That fo the Seed, 
which lyeth within or next it,may be fo much the milder,and the Prine 
ciples thereof more fixed and concentred. And this, both for its bet- 
ter Duration till the time of Sowing; and alfo, that its Fermentation, 
when it is fow’n, may not be too hot and precipitates but fuitable to 
fo flow and equal a motion, as is the Vegetation of a Seed. 
19. $. And that this Sulphur is feparated and difcharged by 
Flower, feems evident, not only from the Strength of its Odour, above 
that of the other Parts; but likewife, in that many times where there 
is no Flower,or that very fmall, the Seed, that is its Cover,as in t 
