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When thefc trembling Pendants arc at the biggeft, they arc three 
Inches and one eighth Part in length, and one eighth Part broad or 
thick. 
Cornutus mentions only the Number and Colour of the Apices; 
Ftlamenta totidem Apicibus atro purpurais ornata. 
STYLUS. 
H E Stylus of each Flower fprings by a threefold Beginning, 
from the three Cells of the Vafculum feminale, palling thro* 
the center of that Subilancc from whence the Petala arife, in the 
very middle of the Stamina which furround it. 
It is of the fame Colour with that of the Stamina, 'uiz. a light 
Scarlet. 
It is apparently a hollow Tube, and is wider at bottom than at 
top. 
At firft it is near of an equal heighth with the Apices, but as 
foon as moft of the male Dull is fhed, and there is no more occa- 
fion for its Reception, it grows about a quarter of an Inch higher, 
being then about two Inches and a quarter. 
'Till the Apices ate become very fmall, and the Flower begins 
to change its Colour and fade, there is nothing to be feen on the 
extremity of the Stylus, but then it appears crowned with a fhort 
hairy kind of Subhance, like a tuft or pile of Velvet, of a greyilh, 
yellow Colour, and a triangular Figure, 
The Stylus Hands a good while after the Petala and Stamina arc 
decayed. 
Cornutus has not mentioned the Stylus at all, neither has’ he lb 
much as included it in the Number of the Stamina. 
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