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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 tiiia, or lime tree ; and the 

 remarkable 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. 



The rose at first is thought to have been of five 

 leaves, as it yet groweth wild among us, but in the 

 most luxuriant, the calicular leaves do still maintain 

 that number. But nothing is more admired than the 

 five brethren of the rose, and the strange disposure of 

 the appendices or beards, in the calicular leaves thereof, 

 which in despair of resolution is tolerably salved from 

 this contrivance, best ordered and suited for the free 

 closure of them before explication. For those two 

 which are smooth, and of no beard, are contrived to 

 lie undermost, as without prominent parts, and fit to 

 be smoothly covered ; the other two which are beset 

 with beards on either side, stand outward and uncovered, 

 but the fifth or half-bearded leaf is covered on the bare 



