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I N order to explain the fexual fyftem, I 
fhall make ufe of the lilly, as that 
plant is almoft every where to be found, and 
as the parts of generation are in that more 
obvious, than perhaps in any other flower. 
Upon opening the flower leaves there will 
appear in the very center, at the bottom, 
an oblong thickifli fubftance with fix fur- 
rows along its fides. This contains the 
feeds, and is called the 
The germen or germ. 
On this Hands a fmall kind of pillar called 
The ftyle. 
Which is terminated by a thickifh trian- 
gular head, called 
The ftigina. 
Thefe all together from the female part 
of the flower, and are called by one name, 
The piftih 
Round this piftil grow fix long thready 
fubftanees, called 
The filaments. 
Each terminated by an oblong body, 
that plays as on a pivot, upon the leafi: mo- 
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