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originally a Cup like that Flower, tho’ it never appeared above ground. 
This is the fixth Rage of the Rudiment. 
The feventh is to be feen fomewhat later in the fame feafon ; and that 
explains all. The Procefs being now become an abfolute Root, and the 
young Plant ready to rife from it, we fee the Flower yet more perfedl ; 
and find thofe purple Films which feemed a Cup, are really the Rudiments 
of that peculiar Leaf which is placed about the middle of the Stalk in the 
full-grown Anemone : there appears alfo now, and never before, the Ru- 
diment of a Stalk, uniting the Root and the young Flower. This is the 
lall ftage of the embryo Plant : what follows is done above ground, and 
open to all eyes. 
The Bud pierces the furface of the earth, fupported by its fliort Stalk, 
and with its top downwards. The end where it is joined to the Stem is 
defended by the Leaf which is to expand upon the middle of the Stalk i 
tind this makes it able to refifl: injuries. Its form is that of a Sw’an’s Neck j 
and the extremities of that particular Leaf make a kind of Fringe to the 
bent part. Fig. i, a. 
From this time it grows fall : the Stalk lengthens, the Head fwells, 
and from the bignefs of a fmall Pea is foon equal to a large Bean, b. At 
four inches height of tlje Stalk, the Leaf which has hitherto been clofed 
about it opens ; and the Stalk lofing its bend at the top, becomes nearly 
credt, Fig. I, c. 
The Bud of a Flower is now large, but green ; and fits clofe upon the 
bofom of that Leaf } as the Flower of the yellow Hellebore, which we 
call Winter Aconite ; before defcribed. From this time the progrefs 
to perfeRion is fwift : a Stalk fiioots up from this Leaf ; that is, the Stem 
of the Plant, which has hitherto been terminated there, rifcs by a new 
growth from it, as from another Root. 
The Flower is then fupported at two Inches above the Leaf which 
hitherto defended it, performing the office of a Cup : and the Petals, which 
were hitherto green, become red, the Plant is now in its perfedtion. Fig. 
I, d. The original fix Petals of which the Single Anemone was com- 
pofed, have Pent up from the fame bafe a number of other large Petals 
like themfelves ; the pale Filaments originally crowned with yellow, are 
converted into a kind of crimfon clubs : their form, in fome degree, re- 
maining, tho’ their colour and qualities are loft. Thefe make a crimfon 
fringe juft within the bafe of the Flower, e \ and what in the Single or 
natural Anemone were Rudiments of Seeds, fwell here into narrow, co- 
dpured Petals j and conftitute the great doublenefs, /. 
This 
