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Book IV. of Flowers, pr 73 i 
9. $. And that thefe Particles, onl 
y by falling on the Urerns, 
fhould communicate to it or to the Sup therein, a Prolifick Virtues it 
may feem the more credible, fromthe manner wherein Coition is made 
by fome Animals; as by many Birds, where there is no Lutromiffion, 
but only an Adafenlasion of Parts < And foin many. Fer. Neher 
in others, doth the Penis ever enter any further than the Neck of the 
Womb. Nor doth perhaps the Semenit f 
orifit doth, it can by no 
means be thought, bodily or as to its groß Subftance, to enter the Mem- 
branes, in which every C: onception, ox the Liquor intended for it, be- 
fore any Coition, is involved; but only fome fubtle and vivifick Effi. 
via, to which the vifible Body of the Semen, isbut a Vehicle. And the 
like Effluvia may be very eafily transfufed from the above faid Particles 
into the Seed-Café or Womb of a Plant. 
10. $. If any one fhall require the Similitude to hold in every 
Thing; he would not have a Plant to refemble, but tobe, an Azimat. 
CH AP. 
vi 
Of the Time of the Generacion of the Flower. 
before they appear in 
HE Time in which the Flower is Generated or For- 
med is a Providence in Nature, whereof, I doa lit- 
tle wonder, that no one, amongít fo many obfer- 
vers of Plants, hath ever yet taken any notice. It is 
= therefore to be remarked, That all Flowers are for- 
med or perfectly finifhed, in all their Parts, long 
fights ufually Three or Four 
Months, and fometimes half a year, or more. And that in all Peren- 
nial Plants, thofe Flowers which appear and are called the Flowers of 
any one year; are not formed in that 
Being, and entirely formed in all Parts, 
Herbs, and in all Shrubs and Trees. 
2. $. This will beft be feen by fome 
year; but were actually in 
the year before 3 as in many 
Inftances. So the Flower of 
Mezereon, which opens in Fannary, is entirely formed about the midle 
of Auguft in the year foregoing. At which time, the Grecz Leaves of 
the Bud being cautioufly removed, the Leaves of the Flower, and the Tab. 63. 
Thece Seminiformes ox Secd-like Attire, 
through an indifferent Gf, are all dift 
encompaffing the Seed-Cafe. 
ingly vilible, > 
3. §. The like may be feenin Sirynga, and other Shrubs, and in 
Trees. In as many of which, as are Frugiferous, the Fruit alfo, which 
anfwers to the Seed-Ca/ein other Plants, 
ly formed, 
is about the fame time entire- 
4. $. Andfo in Herbs 5 as the Flower of Aferuz, which appcareth 
in April or May, is entirely formed in Au; 
year. For there are here, as well as in Tre: 
gufi or July of the foregoing 
es, Two Sorts of Budss fome Tab, 64. 
which are compofed only of Green Leaves; and fome which allo con- 
tein a Flower and the Seed-Cafe, Soin Bears-foot, by fome called the 
Jannary Rofe, the Flomer-Buds, which open in Fanuary are all formed 
in or before the Month of Anguft in the y 
ear preceding, 
5. g: 
