62 AN INTRODUCTION 
moft extraordinary Inftance of Plenitude is’ 
that of the Opulus flore globsfo, commonly 
called the Gelder Rofe. In the common 
fimple Opulus, the Flowersare produced on 
a Cyma, which confifts of a great Number 
of Campanulate, Bell-fhaped, Hermaphro-= 
dite Flowers in the Difk, and of others in 
the Circumference, whofe Corollz are larg- 
er, flat, and Wheel-fhaped, and that are 
barren, wanting the Pifitllum. But in the 
Opulus fore globsfa, all the Flowers of the 
Difk are barren alfo, and fhaped like thofe 
of the Circumference; fo that the Impletion 
here arifes only from the additional Number 
of barren Flowers, the Corolle of which 
are of a larger Size ; and in this it refem- 
bles the Impletion of the compound Flow- 
ers, of which we fhall prefently fpeak. 
Pericarpium and Seeds, and alfo in Color: which has 
given Rife to a Suppofition, that the Peloria is only a 
Linaria in a monttreus State ; fee the Differtation of 
Daniel Rudberg on the Peloriain the Anenitates deade- 
mice, Vol. 1. p. 280. But as the Linaria and Pelorta 
differ fo widely in their Corolla and Stamina, that the 
former muft be referred to the Clafs Didynamra, and the 
latter tothe Clafs Pentandria,the Peloria cannot be fup- 
pofed to derive its Origin from the Linarja, without 
overturning the fundamental Principles of the Science: 
Andtherefore till more /nftances can be produced of this 
kind of Irregularity in Nature, the Peloria cannot with 
Safety be confidered otherwife than as a Genus diftinét 
from that of dutirr hinwm. 
Before 
