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fpread Verbafcum^ and the feeds about 

 the fpicous head or torch of ?*pf*s B&- 

 fatus, in as fair a regularity as the cir 

 cular and wreathed order will admit, 

 which ad vanceth one fide of the fquare* 

 and makes the fame Rhombojdall, 



In the fquamous heads of Scabious % 

 Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Piea^ 

 and in the Scaly compolure of the 0*4- 

 faft, which fome years cnoft abound- 

 eth. After this order hath Nature plan 

 ted the Leaves in the Head of the com 

 mon and prickled Artichoak} wherein 

 the black and fhining Flies do (belter 

 themfelves, when they retire from the 

 purple Flower about it 5 The fame is alfo 

 found in the pricks, fockets, and 1m- 

 preflions of the feeds, in the pulp or bot- 

 tome thereof 5 wherein do elegantly ftick 

 the Fathers of their Mother. To omit the 

 Quincunciall Specks on the top of the 

 Mifcle-berry f efpecially that which 

 grows upon the Ttli* or Lime-Tree. And 

 the remarkable difpofurc of thofe yel- 

 low fringes about the purple Peftill of 

 Anon, and elegant clufters of Dragons, 

 fo peculiarly fccured by nature, with 



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