The Quincunx Naturally Confidered. 15 5 



bulk of plants s In the parts thereof we 

 findeHelicall or fpirall roundles, volu- 

 a's, conicall Seftions, circular Pyra 

 mids, and fruftums of Archimedes^ And 

 cannot overlook the orderly hand of na 

 ture, in the alternate fucceffion of die 

 flat and narrower fides in the tender 

 (hoots of the Afhe, or the regular ine- 

 quality of bignefle in the five-leaved 

 flowers of Henbane, and fomething like 

 in the calicular leaves of Tntfon. How 

 the fpots ofPtrfaaria do manifeft them* 

 felves between thefixt and tenth ribbe* 

 How the triangular capp in the ftemtne 

 or ftjlu* of Tuleps doth conftantly point 

 at three outward leaves. That (pica- 

 ted flowers do open firft at the (talk* 

 That white flowers have yellow thrums 

 or knops. Thar the nebbe of Beans and 

 Peafe do all look downward , and fo 

 prefle not upon each others And how 

 the feeds or many pappous or downy 

 flowers lockt up in fpcketsaftera gom- 

 phofis or ^^*f-articulation , diffufe 

 themfelves circularly into branches of 

 rareorder, obfervable \n7rMg0pogw or 

 Goats-beard.conformable to the Spiders 



