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rnetrical Accuracy^ that we take Notice of it 

 with much Content and Plealure, and greedily 

 gather and treafure it up. As if it be but ex- 

 ad:ly round, as thofe fpherical Stones found in 

 Cubdy and fome ahb in our own Land ; or have 

 but its Sides parallel, as thofe rhomboideal Sele^ 

 nites found near St. Ives in Huntingtonpire^ and 

 many other Places in England, Whereas ordina- 

 ry Stones of rude and uncertain Figures we pafs 

 By, and take no notice of at all. But tho* the Fi- 

 gures of thefe Bodies be pleafing and agreeable to 

 our Minds, yet (as we have already obferv'd) thofe 

 of the Leaves, Flowers and Fruits of Trees, more. 

 And it is remarkable, that in the Circumfcri- 

 ption and Complication of many Leaves, Flow- 

 ers, Fruits, and Seeds, Nature affeds a regular 

 Figure. Of a Pentagonal or Quincunial Difpo- 

 fition. Sir T'homas' Brown oi Norwich produces 

 feveral Examples in his Difcourfe about the .%/- 

 cunx. And doubtlefs Inftanccs might be given in 

 other regular Figures, were Men but obfervant. 



The Flowers ferve to cheriih and defend the 

 firft and tender Rudiments of the Fruit ; I might 

 alfo add the mafculine or prolifick Seed contained 

 in the Chives or Apices of the Stamina, Thefe, 

 befides the Elegancy of their Figures, are many 

 of them endued with fplendid and lovely Co- 

 lours, * and likewife moft grateful and fragrant 

 Odours. Indeed fuch is the Beauty and Luftre 

 of fome Flowers, that our Saviour faith of the 

 Lillies'of the Fields (which fome, not without 

 Reafon, fuppofe to have been 'T'ulips) that Solo- 

 mon in all his Glory was not arrayed like one of 



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