^IX. 



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= lio c 



M. 



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r 



ure 



) 



e 



) 



and 



> 





at 



5 th 



r 



y 



e flock 

 ""h curi, 

 ^^ feds of 

 :ed to tie a 



petal, to 

 e laid uni. 

 ^ove with 

 »ia n t s ha ve 



c 



difeafes of 



snts, who 



u fe of fer- 

 difer/ss, 



the fame 

 Ti In their 



. by a lefs 

 jfe parents 



from their 



fture 



iwer 



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ail 

 an 







irup 



leco- 



A^mi'i^' 



j-'ii 



Sect. XIX. i. i. 



OF 



FLOWERS; 



33 



3 



principal fl 

 p. 8o. 



d frequently from its center. 



Phllof. B 



It is fu 



PP 



fed th 



th 



ftamina of fome double fi 



ted into pet 



but on exannination, I fufped; that the number 



f petals is increafed, and the ftamina prevented from growing 



being comprefied 



them 



in 



th 



fc 



flat 



e :■ as 



many of 



them^ I believe, the rudiments of fome ftamina may be fe 

 ranunculus* So when a new flower ri 



as in 



fes 



in 



th 



of the old 



one, it is fuppofed, that the piftillum is converted into the ftem of a 

 new flower, as in proliferous daify, bellis prolifera ; but I fufpe£lj 

 that the piftillum is prevented from rifing by the immoderate growth 



of the new flower-ftem ; as in fome of them, I am- told^ the rudi^* 

 ment of the piftillum may be perceived. 



Thus monopetalous flowers are doubled or multiplied by the Inr- 



F 



creafed dlvifions of the limb, as obferved by Linnaeus, Philof, Botany, 

 p. 8 3,. who adds, that the metamorphofis of Englifti foapwort is very 

 Angular, as its five petals are transformed into one petal, .and that in 

 opulus flore globofo the central florets become fimilar to thofe of the 



wheeled corols, and; being barren: 



111 



circumference, acquiring 



thefe cafes the ftamens. cannot be changed into corols, as the num- 



r 



ber of corols is not increafed. . Afterwards, in p. 84, the fame il- 

 Juftrious author obferves, that in double lychnis the rudiment of the 



common p 



iftil i 



IS pre 



Th 



fent. 

 f flo 



therefo 



fift 



f the corols or ne6t 



hich laft are properly 



multipli 



append 



to 



former ; and the prevention of the growth of the male and 



female organs is the confequence. Thus the flower of aq 



o 



b 



has three kinds of plenitud 



ed, and the nedtaries excluded 



d the petals excluded 



3 



the ned 



petals become mul- 

 iries are multiplied 

 are multiplied, the petal; 



the ned 



remaining. So that ther-e are five petals, and between each.of thefe 



three nedaries, which exift within each oth 



A 



