AN 



INTRODUCTION 



TO 



BOTANY. 



PART THE FIRST. 



CHAP. I. 

 OF THE SEVEN PARTS OF FRUCTIFICATION. 



BY Fructification we are to understand both the 

 flower and fruit of plants ; which cannot well be 

 separated : For though the fruit does not swell and 

 ripen till after the flower is fallen, its rudiment, or 

 first beginning, is in the flower, of which it properly 

 makes a part. Linnaeus defines the fructification to 

 be a temporary part of vegetables, allotted to gene- 

 ration, terminating the old vegetable, and beginning 

 the new. It consists of seven principal parts, viz. 



1. The CALYX, Einpalement, or Flower-cup- 



2. The COROLLA, or Petals, vulgarly called the 

 leaves of the flower. 



3. The STAMINA, Threads, vulgarly called, the 

 Chives. 



4. The PrsTiLLUM, Pointal. 



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