VEGETABLE STRUCTURE'. 
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Vcflcl and the two fhorter Filaments, / /, i ; and the other two protube- 
rances between the longer Filaments and the cup j thefe are marked / /, 2. 
The Receptacle m is a conic, whitilh, Ipungy. body, rifing from the 
crown or fummit of the Footlhlk, and affording a kind of bafe to the in- 
ternal parts. 
We fee thus there are feven parts in this Flower as in others, arifing 
from the feven condituent fublfances of the Stalk; and they are produced 
from them in this manner. 
The outer Bark, Fig. 5, a, forms the entire Cup h, which being care- 
fully pulled off, takes that Bark with it ; the inner Rind, /;, fpreads into 
the two outer Petals i i • the Blea, c, forms the two inner, k k-, the Vaf- 
cular Series, d, terminates in the four protuberances in the Cup / / ; the 
Flefh of the Plant, e, fplits into the Filaments n ;z ; the Conic Cinders 
of the VefLIs form the Receptacle, m m ; and the Pith, g, runs up into 
the rudiment of the Seed-Vedel 0. 
Of all thefe parts the mod effential are the Filaments. We have fcen 
that the Flefh is the feat of Life in the Flant ; and thefe being the termina- 
tions of that fubdance, have the fame quality: every piece of them, if it 
can be preferved from decay, is ready to grow into an intire Plant ; for it 
can produce its lining of Pith, and all its coverings, from the extravafation 
of its own Juices; and as its fubdance will naturally terminate in other 
Filaments, thefe its coverings will form the feveral parts of the Flower for 
their defence, and the Seed for their reception. 
The Receptacle of the Flower, feparated from the other parts, is repre- 
fented at Fig. 6, as it appears enlarged by the Microfcope. This is'a kind 
of great Gland. It is formed of the white fpungy matter of the Conic 
Cluders, united into one mafs ; and it is in this the Flefh of the Plant be- 
gins to contradt its Veflels, to diminilL the intermediate fpungy matter, and 
to divide itfelf into Cluders. See Fig. 7 : where this is, in fome degree, 
reprefented in the fplit Receptacle, tho’ it is difficult to fhew it didinidly. 
Into this Receptacle alfo are fent certain white very fmall Veffels, filled 
with a pale yellowidi matter from the protuberances. Fig. 5, / /, which- 
terminate the Vafcular Series. 
The Vafcular Subdance of the Fledi of the Plant, being now diveded 
of the intermediate fpunge, divides at the furface of the Receptacle Fig. 6, 
Jy p p p pi into a number of detached parcels, which may now be con- 
fidered as fo many cluders of pure Vefiels continued from the Flefh of the 
Stalk, but greatly diminifhed : thefe rifing again, at the furface of the Re- 
ceptacle, become extended into long, fiender bodies, called the Filaments ; 
3 and. 
