( 444 * ^ 
to Perfe£lion with us) are formed, growing bigger and 
bigger after the Flower falls off ^ nay, even in this 
blooming State, if you cut this VelTelacrofs the middle, 
you may perceive the whitiih Rudiments of the Seeds. 
STYLUS, 
From the upper Part, or Jpex, of the Ovarium, 
arifes the Stylus ^ (Vid, Lit, b.) which is a long flen- 
derTube, that lies enclofed within the tubulous or fiftu- 
lar Portion of the Flower, being there of a whitifli 
Colour, but changing into a Yellow before its Divifion. 
This Stylet ordinarily fplits into 9 Parts, juft oppo- 
fite to the Top of the Stamina, where the Apices take 
their Rife, (Fid, Lit, i, i, i,J and thus far it ftands up- 
right in the Middle of the Stamina'^ for the fake of 
.which only, this Plant is cultivated, and being prepared, 
(as (hall hereafter be defcribed) makes the true Saffron 
of the Shops, which we fo frequently ufe in Phyfick. 
I call thefe Parts of the Stylus, from their Figure and 
Shape, Capillamenta Tubiformia, or. Appendices Styli 
Salpingoeides, in as much as they very exadly repre- 
fent a Trumpet, and are not unlike the Falloppian Tube 
in Women, being narrow at their Origin, and grow- 
ing gradually larger towards their other Extremity, 
which, like the common Trumpet, is open and expand- 
ed^ and, Tubdi Fdlloppii, is jagged, or fringed 
at the Edge. Vid, Lit, k, k, k. 
It may alfo be very fitly named Crocus officinarum^ 
becaufe that is the Part only that is ufed in the Shops. 
They are of a Yellow Colour, juft at their Begin- 
ning, continued from the upper Part of the Stylue, but 
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