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5- $. The fame may alfo be feen about the end of Auguft or the be- 
Tab. Go,  BitMing of September in a Tulip-Root. In which, the Two Inmott < 
“3°  dryer than the reft, ftand hollow, with the little young Flower (which 
appears in Merch or April following) inclofed now in their Centre. Being 
thus kept marm and dry, leftit thould either perith, or be precipitated 
upon the Winter, by fprouting too foon. 
6. $. From hence it is plain, That although the Flower appears be- 
fore the seed; yet if the comparifon be made betwixt the Flower and 
Seed.of the fame year; the Seed is firft formed, and afterward the 
Flower. That is, the Seed, for which Nature choofes the Firft- 
born Sap, is formed in the fore part of the year: which work being 
finifhed, out of the lef fecnzd part of the Sap, the Flowers intended 
for the Sire and Matrix of the next years Seed ; is afterwards produced. 
7. $. THE true Time of the Generation of the Flower being 
know'n, it may alfo be an Inducement to make Tryal, for the bringing 
of many Flowers to grow fairly in Winter,which are ufed to grow, that 
is, to appear, only in the spring and Summer : Je. by keeping the Plants 
warm, and thereby enticing the young lurking Flowers to come abroad, 
The Appendix. 
Being a Method propofed, for the ready finding, by the 
Leaf and Flower, to what Sort any Plant belongeth. 
LTHOUGH many have beftowed extraordina- 
4 ry Care and Induftry upon the fearching out, and 
Defeription of Plants; and for the reducing of 
$ them to their feveral Tribes : yet I will take leave, Yapa 
here to propofe a fhort Method mare Learn- x 
ers, feeing a Plant they know not, may be infor- 
PE GED med to what Sort it belongs, and fo be dire&ed 
where to find it defcribed and difcourfed of. For, except they have 
a Mafter to conduét them,which few have; they muft needs,by feeking 
at random,lofe a great deal of time, which by a regular Enquiry might 
be faved. Befides, that what is learned by their own Obfervation, 
will abide much longer on their mind, than what they are only Poyn- 
ted to, by another. 
2. $. Now the molt Phölofophick way of diftinguithing or forting 
of Plants, were by the Charadleriftick Properties in all Parts, both Com- 
pounded, Conflituents, and Contents. But of the Compounded, the Seeds, 
and fome other Parts, are oftentimes very minute: and the Roots always 
lie hid. Asalfo the Con/tituent Parts, every where, without cuting and 
the ufe of Glufés, Nor can the Contents be accurately obferved other- 
wife. So that for the Ve here intended, thofe Properties are the fiteft 
to be infifted upon, which are the molt Con/picuows, and in thofe Parts, 
where the Learner may the moft readily and without any difficulty 
take notice of them 3 as in the Flower and Leaf. The Flower hath 
Varieties enough of it If. But in regard it is often wanting, when the 
Green Leaf is not 5 it is therefore convenient, that he be ie 
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