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The vegetable system. 
Pappus the Down, a. and Stipes, Support, 
Others have alfo Wings, as Maple. PI. lo. 
Fig. 41. 
Some alfo are NuCes, Nuts, covered with a woody 
outer Skin, as Filberd. PL 10. Fig. 42. 
Others naked, as 
Peopago, Shoot, as in Moffes. Fig. 43. 
III. Receptaculum, the Receptacle. This is the Part which 
gives Infertion to the Flower; and it is either, 
I. Nudum, Naked, as in Dandelion. PL 1 1, Fig. i. 
II. Paleaceum, Chaffy, as in Rudbeckia. PL i i. Fig. 2. 
And thefe are either, 
. I. Floris, of the Flower, containing the Bales of the 
Flowers which have no Seed, as in the Male Flower of 
Pompion. PL 1 1. Fig. 3. 
2. Fructus, of the Fruit, as in the Female Flowers of 
Frogbit. PL ii. Fig. 4. 
3. Fructj FiCATioNis, of the entire Frudification, that 
is, containing the Bafes of Male Flowers and Fruits, as 
in China After. PL 1 1. Fig. jf. 
4. Semin UM, of the Seeds, the Part to which the Seeds- 
adhere within the Capfule, as in Henbane. PL ii. 
Fig. 6. 
I A Receptacle may alfo be either, 
7. Proprium, Single, that is, which contains the Bafe 
only of one Flower, as Pafqueflower. PL ii. Fig. 7. 
8. Commune, Comprehending many Flowers, as Globe- 
Thiftle. PI. II. Fig. 8. 
9. Palea, the Chaff, is a F'ilm feparating one Flower from 
another, as in Lepia. PL ii. Fig. 9. 
' 10. Umbella, an Umbrella, a Receptacle continued in 
long Divifions, as in wild Parfnip'. PL ii. Fig. 10. 
This is either. 
II. Sim- 
