VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. 
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The Flower properly confifts of Two series of Petals, three in each ; 
the three outer are larger, the three inner much lefs j and they are all 
OBLONG. Immediately within thefe rife the tubular Bodies jurt named. 
They have no connexion with the Petals : they rife between them ; and 
they feem to ferve a double purpofe, firft to affift in defending the rifing 
Antheras from injuries, where there are gaps between the Petals; and after- 
wards to fecrete that yellow Juice juft named, and deliver it to the Fila- 
ments. They communicate with thefe by large Veflels at the bafe. This 
yellow Juice is wax ; and being indiflbluble in water, it very happily de- 
fends the particle of the Fleftiy Subftance lodged in each grain of Farina 
for a new Plant. 
Next within thefe Nedlaria rife the Antherre. They are eighteen in 
number ; and each of the Nedtaria communicates with three of them. 
Within thefe appear the Rudiments of four Seed-Veftels. 
This is the Itrudure of the Flower; very different from the general 
character of the Aconites. We have feen how the Flefti is continued up 
into the Filaments : thefe are now the outermoft fubftance of the Flower ; 
and the outer Coat of the Stalk is that Flefhy Subftance. A flip of this, 
being carefully raifed from the Conic Clufters and Pith, brings away three 
feries of Anthera? with it, in which it terminates: its whole fubftance di- 
viding into them at the head, where there is a very fmall Receptacle form- 
ed of the white fpungy parts of the Conic Clufters. 
We know the Flefliy Subftance confifts of a vafcular Matter between 
two Coats : and fo do the Filaments. Each is a tube formed of thefe 
three fubftances ; and each fupports an Anthera, which is large, yellow, 
and appears double. Fig. 6, c. 
The Footftalks of thefe Antheraa are the Filaments. Thefe are not 
brittle as thofe of the Nedaria ; but fo tough, that it is not eafy to feparate 
them without violence. Being pulled downward, they take off a fmall 
piece of the Fleflay Subfiance with them. They are very elegantly formed. 
The Footftalk, or Filament, at its bafe is rounded ; but it grows broader 
and flatter toward the top. The Anthera, in many Plants, is fixed to the 
Filament by an extream fmall neck, but here it is the largeft part, which 
fuftains it. In thofe the Anthera feems a diftind body faftened on the 
Filament; in this it is a plain continuation of the body of the Filament 
itfelf, into two fwellings : we fee that diftindly here, which is really the 
cafe in all. 
The Zerumbeth, and many other of the Afiatick monandrous Plants, 
have a divided Anthera: and fome have thought Linn^us did amifs to 
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