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INTRODUCTION 



TO THE 



SCIENCE OF BOTAN*Y. 

 PART THE FIRST. 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE SEVEN PARTS OF FRUCTIFICATION. 



BY fructification we are to understand both the flower md fruit 

 of plants, which capiot well be separated ; for though the fruit 

 does not swell and ripen till after the flower is fallen, its rudi- 

 ment, or first beginning, is in the flower, of which it properly 

 makes a part. Linnaus defines " the fructification to be a tem- 

 porary part of vegetables, allotted to re-production, terminating 

 the old vegetable, and beginning the new." It consists of seven 

 principal parts, viz. 



1. Calyx, vulgarly called empalement, or flower-cup, 



2. Corolla, foliation, vulgarly called the flower. 



3. Stamina, vulgarly called the chives. 



4. Pistillum, vulgarly styled the point ah 



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