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been of five leaves, as it yet groweth 

 wilde among us; but in the moft lux 

 uriant, the calicular leaves do ftill main 

 tain that number. But nothing is more 

 admired then the five Brethren of the 

 Rofc, and the ftrange difpofure of the 

 Appendices or Beards, in the calicular 

 leaves thereof, which in defpair of r efo- 

 lution is tolerably fal vcd from this con 

 trivance, bed ordered and fiiited for 

 the free clofure of them before expli 

 cation. For thofe two which are 

 fmooth, and of no beard are contrived 

 to lye undermoft, as without prominent 

 parts, and fit to be fmoothly covered; the 

 other two which are befet with Beards 

 on either fide, (land outward and un 

 covered, but the fifth or half-bearded 

 leaf is covered on the bare fide but on the 

 open fide ftands free, and bearded like the 

 other. 



Befidcsa large number of leaves have 

 five divifions, and may be circumfcri- 

 bed by a Pentagon or figure of five An 

 gles made by right lines from the ex 

 tremity of their leaves t as in Maple, 

 Vine > Figge-Tree : But five-leaved 



flowers 



