EXPLANATION of the PLATES, 



FLOWERS. PLATE III. 



Volume III. Page 132. 



AS the explanation of this Plate is inferted in the 

 text, all I (hall fay of it here is this, that all the 

 forms of flowers, which have a direel relation to the Sun, 

 may he reduced to thofe five primary patterns of flowers, to 

 reverberated perpendicular, conic, fpheric, elliptic, and plane 

 or parabolic ; and flowers which have negative relations to 

 the Sun, to the five other patterns of flowers in parafol, 

 which are here reprefented in contrail with the firft. At 

 the fame time, though thefe laft be of forms much more 

 diverfified than reverberated flowers, all their negative fpe- 

 cies may be referredto thofe five pofitive forms. 



I am of opinion, that if there were added to thofe five 

 pofitive, or primordial forms, a certain number of accents, 

 to exprefs the modifications of them, we fhould have the 

 true characters of the florification, and an alphabet of that 

 agreeable part of vegetation. I likewife prefume, that by 

 means of this alphabet, it might be poflible to characterize, 

 on geographical Charts, the different fîtes of the vegetable 



a 4. kingdom. 



