Book IV. 
Welliferons Kind, is the more odorous. And therefore alfo, the Vine 
hath no Flower, partly, that the molt Volatile Spirit and sulphur might 
all run into the Fruit. i> 
gure of the Flower, although it is often much more 
at of the Leaf: yet there is no doubt, but that the 
e hereof may be defined in fome way, anfwerable to that exem- 
plified in the foregoing farts The difference is only th 
whereas the Greer Leaves, and the Plain Leaves alfo of the Flon 
all meafüred by the parts of feveral Circles : thole Flowers which 
are Bellyed, and thofe Leaves of the Flower which are not Plain; 
but Convex, are all meafured by the parts of feveral Spheres. And as 
the Diametres of thofe Circles, bear a certain proportion to the midle 
Stemm of the Leafs fo the Axes of thefe spheres, to an imaginary 
one in the Centre of the Flower. 
21. $. NOW the reafon why the Figure of the Flower is more 
multiplex, than that of the Leaf; may be, partly, becaufe it is under 
the Command and Government of thofe salts, which are here more 
refined and depurate, than in the Leaf and fo more free to lay the Foun- 
dation of any kind of Figure, for which, of their own Nature, they are 
adapted. Partly, for that as the Nitrous and Alkaline Salts are chiefly 
regnant inthe Leaf fo in the Flower, in which the Parezchymows Part S 
hath a greater (a) proportion than in the Leaf 5 it is moft reafonable, (6) T 
toaflign the Predominion to the Acid (b): the Particles whereof,both as Bie) 
they are lefs,and alfo poynted at both ends, (c) feem to be more eafily 7. 
applicable one to another for the making of any Sort. of Line or Figure, CK 
of Flowers. 
Por. 
6.5.13; 
CHAP. IIL 
Of the Artive, and firft of that fot which may be called 
Seminiform. 
AC ITHIN the Foliainre ftands the Attire; which is 
; of Two general Kinds, every where Various and 
Elegant; according to the Defeription 1 have given 
of them inthe Firfé Book. I thall here add fome Ch, =, 
further Remarques: E 
2. $. And firit; of that Sort of Aitire, which 
may be called «Seminifor 5 being ufually, as it 
were, a little Sheaf of Secd-like Particles ftanding on fo many Pe- 
dicills, as the Ear doth upon the Erd of the Straw. 
3. $. Of their Colour it is oblervable, That for the molt part, they 
are White or Yellow 5 fometimes Blew; but never Red, let the Flower 
or Foliature be of what Colour it will. Neither doth their Colour all- 
ways follow that of the Foliature, although that be not Red. Where- 
by it appears, how very Curious and Critical Nature is, in the Separa- 
tion of the Fuyces in Plants: that fach {mall Parts as thefe of the Attire, 
and fo near the Leaves of the Flower, fhould yet receive a different 
Tindure. 
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