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moffes, placed over their antUrce, and refembling a monk's 



cowl, or rather an extinguilTier. 

 7. The volva is a fort of calyx peculiar to the fungi or mufli- 



room tribe, involving or inclofing their fruftification. It is 



membranaceous and torn quite round. 

 IL The corolla, literally a wreath or garland, (ferving together 



with the calyx as covers to the parts they inclofe) is the 



termination of the inner bark of the plant prefenting itfelf 



in this form, and conlifls of the petalum and ne^arium, 



1. The petalum or petal is the corrollaceous covering of the 

 flower. If the flower is monopetalous, f. conllfts of 

 one petal, the lower hollow part of fuch a corolla is called 

 tubus, the tube, and the upper part which fpreads wider is 

 called limbus, the limb or border. And from its different 

 figure it is called either, 



Bell'PMped, without any tube below, 



Funnel- jh aped or conical, with a tube. 



Saucer oy falver-Jbaped^ with a tube, 



IVheel fiaped, without any tube below; or 



Gaping, lipped or maflced. 

 If the corrolla be polypetalous, i, e, confifts of many petals, 



the lower part of each petal is called, the unguis, or claw. 

 And the upper part which is wider, is called the lamina, or 



thin plate. 

 Again this upper part or lamina^ is either 

 Cro'J-jloaped, of four equal fpreading petals; or 

 Butter-Jlj-fiaped, irregular and of four petals ; the upper one 



of which is called the Jlandard; the two fide ones wings; 



and the under one the keel. 



2. ThQneBarkm is that part of the corolla which contains 

 the honey; having a wonderful variety both as to fKapeand 

 fituation, and is fometimes united with the petals, and fome- 

 times feparate from them. 



Ill, The ftamina are thofe parts of a flower appropriated to 

 the preparation of the pollen, or fecundating duft, and con- 

 fid of thQ filatnentum, the anthera, and the pollen, 



1. ThQ filamentim, the filament or thread ferves to elevate the 

 anthers, and connect it to the flower. 



2. The anthera, or fummit of the Jlamen, Is that part which 

 contains the pollen or fecundating dufi, and difcharges it 

 when ripe. 



3. The pollen, or impregnating duft, is that fine powder con- 

 tained within the antherce, or tops of the fiamina, and dif- 

 perfed when ripe, upon the female organ, for impregnating 

 the fame. 



IV. The 



