REGNUM VEGETABILE. 



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20. RECEPTACULUM:^tf7j/ partes micliticationis connc£lcns. 



Pro>'Rium uniiis tloris. 

 CoMMUNE pluribus flofculis fcfTilibus. 

 Umbella intcr calyccm & florwn, clongatum in p«dun- 

 culos scquatos. 

 Umbellula partialis umbella. 

 Cyma umbella compolita ramiilis alternis. 

 Spadix intra Spatham, praprimis Palmae. 

 Rachis Spic?2 Graminis, cui tlorcs infculpti. 



21. MAGHINi^ \'egctabilis fubflantia conftat duplici contraria: 



CoRpoREA externa, includens, nutritiva, defcendcns, ter- 

 rcnis adhaerens, liudiofe mcdullam incarccrans , duriufcu- 

 la, apice tencrrimo accrefcens. 



Medulla interna, inclufa, vivificans, bafi deliquefcenf , 

 apice adfcendens, multiplicatione divifibilitate terminoque 

 infinita, in crcatione accenfa, a primordio occulte fefti- 

 nat lenteque verfus minimam refillentiam ad fummum, 

 fuum ciitum; quo vero corporeum coarclans debilius 

 co clauftra citius refcrat mctamorphofm fubitura, quasque 

 cvafura fefe cum corpore copular, ut in novas difpcr- 

 genda vitas circulus perennct. 



21. GERMIN4TIO fit difperfis SemiMus , pcr Hilum abfor- 

 bcntibus aquam, unde rumpimtur membrana; a bibulis 

 tumcntibus Cot^ledonibui ^ lactantibus C^rculum^ usque 

 dum foetus Rojielium Radiculas exfcrat, quo erigatur 

 PlumuU accrcfcens in Herham anni , terminatam Gemma 

 fupradecompofita. 



23. VEGETATIO fit RadicuUs fugentibus tin(9:uram aquofam 

 Humi, qux, calore quotidie addito, lentc pellitur per 

 corporei extcrni vafa, unde nutritio exterioris intcriorisquc 

 plantx, exhalantc fupcrfluo, Cortice deponente ab intc- 

 riorc parietc Ltbrum^ quotannis fecedentem in fubftan- 

 tiam Lignear/1 ( ex Annulis annotinis interftindis Albur- 

 no,demum ab cmarcidis inferioribus ramis fuboffiracato ) 

 fuftentaturam ( audiccm adfcendentem , intra cujus api- 

 ces Medulla viva properat (*}. 



A 4 ME- 



( * _) XATURA ubique 171 fjicm fu» propeydt ; 



in orginem ftirce ntitur virilfus ; 



in dccurlii fjller.tii?Ms incrementis fe iiifpenfat ; 



in cxitu ad rninavi Ute impetu itnit, 



SENECA. 



