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The Seeds of this Plant never come to any Perfedion in thefe 
Northern Countries, neither does the Seed Vcflcl at all fwell, after 
the Flowers are decayed j but on the contrary Ihrinks and dries upj 
Cornutus has taken no manner of notice of this Part of the 
Plant. 
FLORES. 
M Any curious as well as entertaining Obfervations and FigureSa 
might have been made concerning the gradual explication 
and unfolding of the Flowers, while they remained as yet in their 
infant State, wrapt up in the Perianthium, and alfo from the time 
that Membrane began to open, till they arrived at their utmofl: Per- 
fedion. But having neglcded thefe in the proper Seafon, I am 
obliged to defer them till another. 
At prefent, therefore, I fhall confider them only after they are 
fully blown, obferving however, by the by, that the Flowers begin 
to appear about the latter end of Augufty fometimes fooncr or later, 
according to the Seafon, the ftrength and fulnefs of the Root, and 
above all, the warmth of the Place where they Band : They come 
forth gradually, for in one of my Lillies, I obferved threc^ Weeks 
between the full opening of the firft and laft BlolToms. 
The number of Flowers in each Plant is not always the fame, one 
of mine had eleven, the other nine. At Mr. Fairchilds I faw one 
with feven, another with eight, and a third with ten. 
The largcft Circumference of each Flower, is about feven Inches, 
the Diameter of it two Inches and a quarter. 
The Circumference of the whole congeries or bunch of Flowers 
belonging to one Plant is different, according to the number of 
thefe, but their fituation, with refped to one another, is always 
pretty much the fame, for when view’d altogether, they appear to 
form a large and beautiful fegment of a Sphere, whole Center is 
fonie where near the Originc of the Pedunculi. 
The Flowers continue in full Bloom for about fix Weeks, [and 
then begin to decay and contrad, and at laft quite wither and dye i 
and fo remain in a fading Bloom about one Fortnight longer. 
Cornutus has obferv’d, that there is Ibmctimes nine or ten Flowers 
upon one Stalk, difpofed in form of an Umbrella. In Thyrfi fa- 
ft'rgio Novem aut decern forum gemmrs in Umbellam difpnmtur. 
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