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more, the Attire is not feparate from the Foliature, fo as to ftand with- 
in that in one entire Pofj ; but every Leaf of the Flower hath its own 
Attire apart. For the fake of which, the Bafis of every Leaf is formd 
into a little Tube or Pipe, whereby it embofomes its own Attire within Tab.62: 
it elf Confifting commonly of Two Parts, a Sheath and a Blade: the 
Leaf it felf anfwering to the Floret in other Flowers, 
8. $. In fome Plants, befides the Attire or Pofj in the midle of 
the Flower ; the Leaves alfo have each their own to themfelves, as in Tabs 61 
Marigold : yet this, as I take it,confifting only of one fingle Parr, which 4%% 6%- 
anfwers to the Blade ; the Leaf it felf being as the sheath. 
9. $. In many Plants, this Florid Attireis very large; fo that not 
only the Suits, but alfo the feveral Parts whereof every Suit confilts, Tab, ét, 
being throughly ripe and well blown open, are all vifible to the bare 
Eye, asin Knapweed, and all the Thiftle Kind. This Attire is all the 
Flower, that this fort of Plants have 5 being, though Empal'd, yet with- 
out any Foliature. 
10. $. And fometimes, there is little or no Flower befides this At- 
tire, although extream fmall, as in Golden Rod, Wormwood and others. 
Where it may be noted, That the Medicine called Wormfeed or Semen 
Santonici, is no Sort of Seed, but the Buds of {mall Flowers, or of the 
Florid Attire of that Plant, 
CHAP. V. 
Of the Ufe of the Attire. 
@ F the Secundary Ufe hereof, I have fpoken in the 
g Firs Book; and particularly, of the Globulets or Ch. å. 
finall Particles within the Thece of the Seed-like At- > 
K tire, and upon the Blades of the Florid, I have con- 
2 jecur'd, That they are that Body which Bees gather 
and carry upon their Thighs, and is commonly cal- 
dei VIS L. led their Bread. For the Wax they carry in little 
” i Flakes in their Chaps : but the Breád is aKind of Powder ; yet fome- 
? what moift, as are the faid little Particles of the Attire. 
2.5. But the Primary and chief Uf of the Attire is fach, as hath 
refpe& to the Plant it felf; and fo appears to be very great and necef- 
fary. Becaufe, even thofe Plants which have no Flower or Foliature, 
are yet fome way or other 4ttir'd; either with the Seminiform, or the 
Florid Attire. “So that it {eems to perform its fervice to the Seed, as 
the Foliatwre, to the Fruit. 
3- $. In diftourfe hereof with our Learned Savilian Profellor Sir 
Thomas Millington, he told me, he conceived, That the Attire doth 
ferve, as the Male, for the Generation of the Seed. 
4 $. I immediately reply'd, That I was of the fame Opinion ; 
and gave him fome reafons for it, and anfwered fome Objeions, which 
might oppofe them. But withall, in regard every Plant is ippevsSudus 
or Male and Female, that I was alfo of Opinion, That it ferveth for 
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