VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. i6r 
more advanced j but idil! fo unfafliioned, that none but thofe u'ho know 
what they were to expedt, would find there the lead: refernblance of the 
fucceeding Plant. This may be called, for difiindtion, the Rudiment in 
its fecond ftage. 
From this time thefe feveral parts of the fucceeding Plant grow fome- 
thing more didindf, as the Bud increafes j till at the end of that fummer, 
when the Bud is full formed, and the Roots are ready to be taken up, the 
complex body has at its top fornething like the Anemone Flower. This 
may be called its third fiage. 
When the Root, with this Bud upon it has been planted again, and has 
remained its flowering feafon in the ground, on taking it up, the Bud is 
found lengthened into a Radical Procefs ; and the Crown of it being fplit 
open, there is feen the Rudiment of the fucceeding Plant, in its fourth 
fiage. Its place is near the Crown; and fomewhat on one fide: and to 
the unaflified eye, it appears but as a fmall dufky fpot : but the power of 
the Microfcope fhews now the form of the whole fucceeding Flower, except 
the Petals. 
This want of the mofl: fhewy part, would miflead the common eye ; 
but thofe accuftomed to natural refearches, know the moft eflential are al- 
ways firfi formed, and thofe of lefs importance afterwards. We know the 
Rudiments of Seed are the moft effential in this cafe ; and therefore they 
are to be firft expedfed vifible : we fee them accordingly : not in their pro- 
per form of Seeds, for they conftitute the inner Petals in this Double Ane- 
mone ; and they have, even thus early, a tendency to that fhapc. The 
appearance now is an oval body, furrounded and covered with Films. The 
Stalk is all this time invifible, and even the very Rudiments of the outer 
Petals. 
When this Procefs has ftood its due feafon, it will (hoot up a Flowering 
Stalk ; whether it be feparated from the Root, or planted again with it. 
If we take up fuch a Root when it has been a month in the ground, we 
find the young Flower in the center much more diftindt : the fix outer Pe- 
tals are plainly formed, and they foon increafe in fize. This may be called 
the fifth fiage of the young Plant : and after this the procefs to a perfedl 
form is much more rapid. 
After one feafon more this new-formed Plant is to (hew itfelf above 
the ground. Taking up the Root foon after planting at that period, we 
find the young Flower much more diftindt : but covered by long and point- 
ed purple fcales, it now refembles a Rofe in its Bud, with the jagged end 
of the Cup about it : and one would be apt to think the Anemone- had 
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