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fom, bat having at that time only the Bud (Tab. I, 
5. N°. 1.), which, taken out of its Cafe, may be 
feen with its Umbilicus a , at N°. 2. That every Flower 
has its Farina , has been juftly advanced ; and as it was 
my Dcfign to obferve that, I took a Branch into the 
Houfe ; but, making but a flight Obfervation at that 
time, I laid it on half a Sheet of brown Paper in a 
warm Draw 5 and, to my great Surprize, coming to 
examine it in a few Hours after, I found the whole 
Number of the Buds blown out into full Flower, and 
fuch a Quantity of Farina on the Paper, that it feem’d 
more like a Paper ofBrimftone than any thing elfe. 
I then no longer negleded a thorough Examination, 
which I began and completed in the following Man- 
ner : 
The Figui^s N°. 1, 2 , have been already taken no- 
tice of. 
N°. 3. is a feparate View of its Partitions, before it 
is near Blowing. Every five of thefe go to a Flower, 
and divide properly for Blowing, fome fmall Space 
before they burft : There are fometimes fix to a Flower, 
but it is feldom : They open at the Bottom a a, and 
immediately, letting drop the Farina , turn themfelves 
up; fo the Top, which now appears the Head, will, 
when blown, be the Centre of the Flower (See an 
Explanation of this at N D . 4. where the whole Di- 
vifion makes the Flower and the Strokes the Divifion 
of the Tetala). a is the Stem of the Flower : Now 
the Bottom opening difeovers this Stem ; and the cafy 
Tranfition of turning very near infide-out, makes a 
complete Flower, N°. 5. the Shape of which is fel- 
dom exaft in any two; tho’ there are near twelve 
Flowers form’d by the Bud (See the back Part of 
one, 
