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8 . The Jlrobilus, or cone, is a feed-veffel competed 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 dull. Under this head are corn- 
prehended the feed properly fo called, the nut, and propago. 
The nut is a feed covered with a hard bony fkin. 
Propago , the feed of the mofles, which has no tunic or 
covering. 
VII. The receptaculum, or receptacle, the feventhr and lafl 
part of thefruftification on which the other fix are connected* 
comprehends the receptaculum proprium, the receptaculum < com - 
mune, and the fpadix. 
1. The receptaculum pr opr ium, or proper receptacle, which be- 
longs to the parts of a fingle fru&ification only. It is called 
the receptacle either of the fructification, when it is com- 
mon to both flower and fruit; of the flower, when the 
parts of the flower only are faflened to it without the ger- 
men ; of the fruit when it is abafeforthe fruit, and at a di- 
ftance 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-veffel. 
2. The receptaculum commune , or common receptacle, is that 
which conne&s feveral florets together; as in compound 
flowers; and is either paleaceum chaffy, i. e. with thin 
membranaceous chaffy plates rifing between the florets, or 
nudum naked, without chaffy 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 Jpatha or 
iheath; but in this laft cafe it is often Ample. 
Explanation of the Modes of Flowering . 
The peduncle or foot-flalk of the flower is a partial trunk, bear- 
ing the fru&ification only, but not the leaves. 
When branched or divided, each of the divifions is called 
pedicellus, or a little flower-flalk. 
Tlower-ftalks are diflinguiihed from the place of the plant 
where they grow, into, 
1. The radical flower-flalk, when they proceed immediately 
from the root. 
2, The cauline flower-flalk, which proceeds from the flem. 
3, The 
