294 Of Flowers. 
fprings up from within the (heath, are rubbed off and 
(lands like a powder upon them both. In fome, as in 
chicory, they feem to grow within-fide the (heath, as 
will appear if it be fplit e with a fmall pin, as alfo in 
knap-weed they are very numerous. 
The head of the blade is always divided into two, and 
fometimes into three parts, as in chicory, fig. 533, which 
gradually cuil outwards after the manner of fcorpion 
grafs. 
This description agrees principally to the corimbiferous 
kind, as tanfy, camomile, &c. but in fcorzonera, chicory, 
fig. 533. hawk-weed, moufe-ear, and all the intibous 
kind, with many more. The piftil is feparated from the 
foliature, fo as to (land alone therein, every leaf a b c 
of the flower having a piftil of its own; for which reafon 
the bafe of each leaf is formed into a little tube a, fig. 
533. that inclofes the piftil, which commonly confifts of 
a (heath and blade e; the leaf itfelf anfwering to the 
floret in other flowers. The blade (or rather (lamina) is 
leen drawn out of its (heath at f g of the fame figure, and 
at g the head of the blade is opened into three parts, 
which are full of thofe globular particles before-mentioned. 
The time in which the flower is generated, is hardly 
any where, if at all taken notice of among fo many ob- 
fervers of plants. It is therefore to be remarked, that all 
the parts of the flower in all flowers, are perfectly finifhed 
long before they appear in fight, ufually three or four 
months, and in fome fix. And that in perenial plants, 
thofe flowers which appear in any one year are not formed 
in that, but were actually in being and intire in all their 
parts the year before. The flower of mezerop, which 
opens in January, is intireiy formed about the middle of 
Auguft in the foregoing yearj at which time, if the green 
Jcayes of the bud be carefully removed, the leaves of the 
flower 
c Grew Ana. Plants, p. 170, 
