2 AN INTRODUCTION 
ning the new. It confifts of feven princi- 
pal Parts, viz. 4 
1. The CALYX, Empalement, or Flower- 
cup. 
ie ‘The: COROLLA, Foliation, vulgarly 
called, the Leaves of the Fléwer. 
3. The STAMINA, Threads, vulgarly 
called, the Chives. ° 
4. The PISTILLUM, Pointal. 
5. The PERICARPIUM, Seed-Veffel. 
6. The SEMINA, Seeds themfelves. 
7. The RECEPTACLE, Ba, on which 
the Fructification is feated. 
All thefe. Parts, and their feveral, Ufes, 
will be particularly explained in the follow- 
ing Chapters; and it is fufficient to obferve 
here, that the four firft; v7z. Calyx*, Co- 
rolla, Stamina, and !iftillum, are properly 
Parts of the F/ower ; and the three laft, Pe- 
ricarpium, Semina, and Receptacle, Parts 
of the Fruit; and that it is from the Num- 
ber, Proportion, Pofitions, and other Cir- 
cumftances attending thefe Parts of Fruéti- 
fication, that the Claffes of Vegetables, and 
* That the Calyx is a Part of the Flower, though it 
often attends the Fruit, is manifeft, from hence; that 
there is no Inftance of its coming out after the Plant has 
done flowering, although in the Patagonula the Calyx is 
obfervedto grow to a much larger Size in the Fruit than 
it had in the Flower. 
the 
