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Elegant faria, before explication. After such order stand 

 >n the flowery branches in our best spread verbas- 

 cum, and the seeds about the spicous head or 

 torch of thapsus barbatus^ in as fair a regularity 

 as the circular and wreathed order will admit, 

 which advanceth one side of the square, and 

 makes the same rhomboidal. In thesquamous 

 heads of scabious, knapweed, and the elegant 

 iaceapinea, and in the scaly composure of the 

 oak rose which some years most aboundeth. 

 After this order hath nature planted the leaves 

 in the head of the common and prickled arti- 

 choke, wherein the black and shining flies do 

 shelter themselves, when they retire from the 

 purple flower about it. The same is also found 

 in the pricks, sockets, and impressions of the 

 seeds, in the pulp or bottom thereof; wherein 

 do elegantly stick the fathers of their mother: 

 to omit the quincuncial specks on the top of 

 the miscle-berry, especially that which grows 

 upon the tilia, or lime tree ; and the remark- 

 able disposure of those yellow fringes about the 

 purple pestil of Aaron, and elegant clusters of 

 dragons, so peculiarly secured by nature, with 

 an umbrella or skreening leaf about them. 



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