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PEDUNCULI. 
T he Foot Stalks that Tupportthe Flowers, and arc always equal 
to them in Number, arifing from the top of the Caults or Flower- 
Stem; thofe neareft the Center almoft in a right Line with the Stalk, 
the reft fpreading outwards, at a greater or Icfs Angle with the firft, 
in proportion to their Diftance from them. 
Their Colour is the fame with that of the Caulis, 
They are not all of the fame Length, in the fame congeries of 
Flowers: Thelongeft, meafured from the ^erianthium to the Vafeu- 
him Seminaky I have commonly found to be r Inch 5 -Eighths, the 
Ihorteft I Inch i- Eighth, and all the reft between thefe two. 
Their Figure comes near that of Prifm generated by a Triangle* 
whofe Bafs is 3-16/^ Parts of an Inch, and Perpendicular Altitude 
\-%th Part. 
All that can be learned from Cormitas's Account of the ^edmcult 
is, that there are fuch belonging to this Plant, and that their Number 
is equal to that of the Flowers. Florem gemma totidem petiolis 
herentes. 
VASCULUM SEMINAL E. 
A t the top of each Pcdunculus wc obferve a fhort, thick, 
knobby Part, which conftitutes the h^afculum feminisy or Seed 
Vdlcl. 
Its Colour is much the fame with that of the Flower Stem and 
Pedunculus. 
The Figure of it is nearly that of a triangular Prifm, a little dc- 
prefs’d near the Bottom and Top. 
The Heighth is about a quarter of an Inch, as is likewife the Bafc 
of the generating Triangle, meafur'd at the wideft Part, and the 
perpendicular Altitude three ftxteen Parts of an Inch. 
The Infide of the Seed Velfel is plainly divided by membranous 
Septa or Partitions, into three Loculamenta or Cells, each of which 
is filled with fmall white Seeds in great Numbers. 
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