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B. The Jlrohilus^ or cone, is a feed-veflel compofed of woody 

 fcales, laid over one another like tiles; it opens only at 

 top, the fcales being fixed below to the center of the cone. 



VI. Semen, the feed, is a deciduous part of the plant, con- 

 taining the rudiments of a new vegetable, and fertilized by 

 the fprinkling of the male duft. Under this head are com- 

 prehended the feed properly fo called, the nut and propago. 



The 7mt is a feed covered with a hard bony fkin. 



Propago^ the feed of the moffes, which has no tunic or 

 covering. 



VIL The receptaculum, or receptacle, the feventh and lafl: 

 part of thefruftification on which the other fix are conneded, 

 comprehends the receptaculim proprium^ the receptaculum com- 

 mune, and the fpadix, 



1. The receptaculim pYopvium, or proper receptacle, which be- 

 longs to the parts of a fingle frudlification only. It is called 

 the receptacle either of the fruBification, when it is com- 

 mon to both flower and fruit; of ihQ flower, when the 

 parts of the flower only are faftened to it without the ger- 

 men; of the fruit when it is a bafefor the fruit, and at a di- 

 llance from the receptacle of the flower; or of the feeds, 

 when it is a bafe to which the feeds are fixed within the 

 pericarpium or feed-veflTel. 



2. The receptaculum commune^ or common receptacle, Is that 

 which connects feveral florets together; as in compound 

 flowers; and is either paleaceum chaff^y, f. e, with thin 

 membranaceous chaffy plates rifing between the florets, or 

 nudum naked, without chaify plates. 



3. The fpadix is the receptacle of the palms, and is always 

 branched. It is alfo ufed to fignify the flower flalk of every 

 plant, which was originally contained within a fpatha or 

 iheath; but in this lafl: cafe it is often Ample. 



Explanation of the Modes oj Flowering. 



The peduncle or foot-fl:alk of the flower is a partial trunk, bear- 

 ing the fruftification only, but not the leaves. 



When branched or divided, each of the divifions is called 

 pedicellus, or a little flower-ftalk. 



Flower-ftalks are diftinguiflied from the place of the plant 

 where they grow, into, 



1. The radical flower-fl:alk, when they proceed immediately 

 from the root. 



2. The cfl«/mff flower-ftalk, which proceeds from the ftem. 



3. The 



