M.owr.Hs : TiiiiK I'Ains. 



63 



its luiiiulit's. 'I'lio |iliii\ of II I'ViiM' i» illiisl ntti'il in ihc follow in^ (i^'iin's. ViU' 

 150. to lh';.Mu widi, is li sh'in ti'iiniiintfij l»\ u (lowrr, wliirli plainly <'om«'s from 

 n ti'iiiiiniil IhmI or is n t>riuiiiii/ llowt r. [''[•^. 151 is tlio suim», wliich has staifr*! 

 a liiaiM-li from I lie axil 

 of <'a<'li of till' iipiH'riiiost 



OJlV«>S 



each o 



f II 



H'SH 



til 



II 



OWCI' 



l.ll.l. 



b f. 



Vti 



VA 

 PliUi of tin- f'ynir. 



V-i 



1 



t'lul.- 



Fi;;. I 5 J is I lie SMiiii', 



uitli till' siilr lil.'ilii'ili'S 



ji;,'!iiii lif.'iticlicil ill I lie ^ 



haiiir way, i-acli liiaiu'li 



CMiliti;,' ill M llowcr ImkI. 



This Miakc.s a cliislcr 



looking; like a coiyml), as 



hIiowii ill V\)i. I 1.^ ; liiil ohscivc that heir in llic cyini' the iiiidilh' flowor, a, 



which i'ikIs tilt' niaiii stem, hlossoms Ijr.st ; next, those lloweis markeil h\ then 



those markr'd c, aiitl so on, the cenlre one of each set liein",' the earliest ; wImIh 



in the coryml" I he hjossomin;,' heyins with the oMterin(»sl, llowers and |>roce«'»ls 



re^rnlarly towards the cent re. The hllder, the ( 'ornel, and the lly<lran;,'ea (l''i;^. 



1 69) havo their hlossoms in cyiiiis many t iiiies hranehed in this way; that is, 



they have rnmiKinii'l ri/ux's. 



i<)o. A Fascicle i>i only a close or very luiich (trowiled cyme, with very short 

 footstalks to the Mowers, or none at all, as the flower-cliister of Sw«'et William. 



I 



Kii. The Parts of a Flower we IV iiliisti'at;'d at the he^rinnin^' of the hook, in 

 Chai»t('r I., Section I. Let iis irlance at them aijaiii, takiii«]^ a different flower 

 for the example, namely, that of the 'j'hreeleaved Stonecrop. Although small, 

 this has all the parts \ ery di.-'.inct and re^^'tilar. Fi^'. 15;^ is n iiifxlerately en- 

 larged \iew of one of the middle or earlii-st lowers of this StorKK-rop. (The 

 others are like it, only with their parts in foui> instead of lives.) And Fi^. 154 

 shows two parts of each sort, one on each side, more ma^'iiified, and separated 

 from the end of the llowei- stalk (or Ih'cp/itai'h')^ but standing in their natural 

 position, namely, helow or outside a Sepal, or leaf of the Calyx ; then a /'</«/, 

 cv leaf of the Corolla; then a Slat/itjii; then a Fisfil. 



