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The tops or apices which contain the farina, are for 
the mod part either white or yellow, fometimes blue, but 
never red. Whatever colours the flowers be of, they 
differ in pofltion, fometimes ftanding double upon one 
chive, as in toad-flax, fnap-dragon, &c. In fome they 
are faftned to their ftamina at their middle, as in Spanifh 
broom, hyffop, fcabeous, behen, &c. in fome ereft, as 
in clematis, auftriaca, ladies looking-glafs, rape crow¬ 
foot, &c. coded arfmat hath no chives, but Hand upon a 
large bafe. 
Their number are alfo different, in great celandine, 
rofe, rape-crow-foot they are numerous 3 in great plantain, 
and fome other herbs, much more confpicuous than the 
foliature itfelf. In germander chickweed, they are always 
two, and no more 3 in fome they follow the number of 
the leaves, efpecially in the number five 3 as in blattaria, 
black henbane, &c. In ftichwort and lychnis fylvefrris 
they are ten, juft double to the number of leaves. 
Their fhape is different, and always very elegant, with 
great variety. In borage, like the point of a fpear 3 in 
blattaria, like an horfe-fhoe; in clematis like a fpatula, 
wherewith Apothecaries make their mixtures: in mallow 
like a head-roll 3 in hyfop they have one cleft before, in 
blattaria one round about 3 in water betony one at the 
top 3 in fcabious they have a double cleft, one on each 
fide. 
In colocynthis the farina is not contained in feveral 
thsecae or apices ftanding upon chives, but is all of one 
entire part, like a thick column in tire midft of the flower, 
having feveral little ridges or furrows winding from the 
top to the bottom round about, in the middle of each of 
which runs a line, where the fkin, after fome time, opens 
into two lips, and prefents the globular particles con¬ 
tained in the hollow of every ridge. 
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