2BG Of Flowers. 
In leguminous plants, if the petala of the flower be 
carefully taken off, the pod or filiqua may be difcovered, 
clofely covered with an involving membrane, which 
about the top, feparates into feveral ftamina, each being 
fraught with its quantity of farina; and thefe ftamina 
bound clofe upon the brufh, which is obfervable at the 
extremity of that tube, which here alfo leads to the 
pod; it does not indeed ftand upright, but bent fo as to 
make almoft a right angle with it: in rofes there Hands 
a column confuting of feveral tubes, clung clofely to¬ 
gether, though eafily feparable, each leading to its pecu¬ 
liar cell, having the ftamina in great numbers planted 
all round. In tithymalus or fpurge, there arifes a tricoc- 
cous veflfel, that, whilft it is fmall and fo not eafily dif- 
cernable, lies at the bottom, till it is impregnated; but 
afterwards it grows up and Hands fo high upon a tall 
pedicle of its own, as would incline one to think, that 
there was to be no communication between this and the 
apices, which he fees dying below. In ftrawberries and 
rafberries, the hairs which grow upon the ripe fruit are 
fo many tubes, each leading to its particular feed 5 and 
therefore we may obferve, that in the ftrft opening of the 
flower there ftands a ring of ftamina within the petala, 
and the whole inward area appears like a little wood of 
thefe hairs or pulp, which when they have received and 
conveyed their globules, the feed fwells and rifes in a 
carnous pulp. 
Fig.527. reprefents a yellow lilly. A, the top of the piftil 
or tube, at which the feminal plants are fuppofed to enter, 
and through which they are conveyed to the unimpregnated 
feeds in the feed-velfels; bbthe apices femini-formes, which 
when open, fhed that powder which enters the tube at A ; 
C the place of the feed-velfel at the bottom of the tube, the 
tube and veffel itfelf being concealed under the leaf in this 
figure. Kg* 
