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mofles, placed over their anther and refembling a monk^s 
cowl, or rather an extinguifher. 
7. The volva is a fort of calyx peculiar to the fungi or mufh- 
room tribe, involving or inclofing their fr unification. It is 
membranaceous and torn quite round. 
II. The cor olla, 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 confifts of the petalum and nettarium. 
1. The petalum or petal is the corrollaceous covering of the 
flower. If the flower is monopetalous, i. e. confifts 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-fhaped, without any tube below, 
Fumtl-fhaped or conical, with a tube, 
Saucer or falver-Jhaped, with a tube, 
JVheelfiaped, without any tube below; or 
Gaping, lipped or mafked. 
If the corrolla be polypetalous, *. 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 
CrojJ-Jhaped, of four equal fpreading petals; or 
Butt er-fly-Jb aped, 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. The ne&qrium is that part of the corolla which contains 
the honey; having a wonderful variety both as to lhape and 
fituation, and is fometimes united with the petals, and fome- 
times feparate from them. 
III. The ftamina are thofe parts of a flower appropriated to 
the preparation of the pollen, or fecundating dull, and con- 
fift of the filamentum, the anther a, and the pollen. 
1. The filamentum, the filament or thread ferves to elevate the 
antherce , and conneft it to the flower. 
2. The anthera, or fummit of the Jlamen , is that part which 
contains the pollen or fecundating dufl, and discharges it 
when ripe. 
3. The pollen , or impregnating dull, is that fine powder con- 
tained within the antherce, or tops of the ftamina, and dif- 
perfed when ripe, 'upon the female organ, for impregnating 
the fame. 
IV. The 
