58 AN INTRODUCTION 
CH  ASPAPeX, 
OfLuxurtantT Flwers, commonly called 
DouBLE. 
Flower is faid to be luxuriant, when 
fome of the Parts of Frutification are 
augmented in Number, and others thereby 
excluded. The Luxuriancy is commonly 
owing to the Luxuriancy of its Nourifh- 
ment; the Part multiplied is ufually the Co- 
rolla, but fometimes the Calyx alfo; and 
by this [ncreafe of the Covers, the effential 
Parts of Fructification are deftroyed. Luxu- 
riant Flowers are divifible into, 1. Mu/tiphi- 
cate, multiplied. 2. Pleni, full. And, 3. 
Proliferous, producing Young ; to which may 
be added, 4. Muttlate, maimed ; fuch asare 
deficient in fome Part, whizh ftand oppofed 
to the luxuriant ones: All thefe thall be 
explained in their Order. 
1. Flowers are faid to be MULTIPLE 
CATE, when by the Increafe of the Co- 
rolla only a Part of the Stamina are ex- 
cluded; and this diftinguifhes them from 
the Flores Plent, full Flowers, in which the 
Multiplication of the Corolla is fo great as 
to exclude them all. Maultiplicate Flowers 
are 
