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IN order to explain the fexual fyftem, i 

 {hall make ufe of the lilly, as that 

 plant is almoft every where to be found, and 

 as the parts of generation are in that more 

 obvious, than perhaps in any other flower. 

 Upon opening the flower leaves there will 

 appear in the very center, at the bottom, 

 an oblong thickifli fubfliance with fix fur- 

 rows along its fides. This contains the 

 feeds, and is called the 



The germen or germ. 

 On thisftands a fmall kind of pillar called 



The ftyle. 

 Which is terminated by a thickifti trian- 

 gular headj called 



The ftigma. 



Thefe all together from the female part 



of the flower, and are called by one name, 



' ThepiftiL 

 Round this pifliil grow fix long thready 

 fubftances, called 



The filaments, 

 Each terminated by an oblong body, 

 that plays as on a pivot, upon the leaft mo- 

 tion 



