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well expanded, as in the Poppy ; and some flowers 

 appear to be wholly without it, as the Embothria. h 

 The next part is called by botanists the Corolla, 

 which is familiarly khown to be white or red in the 

 Rose, and commonly called the flowery in some 

 plants this part is also wanting, as in the Hippuris, 

 Pepper, Misseltoe, &:c. 



In the centre of the Corolla there are two parts 

 on which the fructification and reproduction of the 

 species more particularly depend: in the Lily they 

 are remarkably conspicuous. They are named re- 

 spectively, Stamen and Pistillum. The Pistillum 

 produces the seed at the base> and the use of the 

 stamen is to perfect that seed, so that it may have a 

 principle of life to vegetate and reproduce other plants 

 of the same kind. 



The other three parts are, the seed, called, in the 

 language of botany, Semen ; the seed-vessel, called 



b Of the Embothria there are four species. The Tulip and 

 the L'ly have been supposed to be without a Calyx, but Jussieu, 

 a man of the highest authority in the science of Botany, has 

 determined these flowers to be without Corolla, and that part 

 which has been usually called a Corolla to be no other than a 

 Calyx. 



c The leaves that compose the corolla are called Petals, and 

 are usually of the colours, white, yellow, red, or blue, separate 

 or combined; but sometimes they are green, as in the Tuber- 

 ous Moschatell, the Herb Paris, the Corraea v'wens, &c. ; and 

 the Green Hellebore exhibits a curious metamorphose, the 

 Petals of which are first white, then green, and afterwards 

 change, into a Calyx. 



