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be folid, and for fome time after their firft formation, are entire; yet 
are they really hollow 5 and their fide, or fides, which were at firft 
entire, at length crack afunder: And that moreover the Concave of 
each Semet is not a meer vacuity, but fill’d up with a number of minute 
Particles, in form of a Powder. Which, though common to all Sevsets, 
yet in fome, and particularly thofe of a Tulp or a Lilly, being larger, 
ts more diftinG@ly obfervable. 
14. §. Thefe Semets are fomtimes faftned fo, as to ftand erect 
above their Chive, as thofe of Larks-heel. Somtimes, and I think ufa- 
ally, fo as to hang a little down by the midle, in the manner and figure 
of a Kidney 5 as in MaHows, Their Cleft or Crack is ometimes fingle, 
but for the moft part double: At thefe Clefts it is that they disburfe 
their Powders; which as they ftart out, and ftand betwixt the two 
Lips of each Cleft, have fome refemblance to the common Sculpture 
of a Pomegranate with its Seeds looking out at the Cleft of its Rind. 
This muft be obferv’d when the Clefts are recently made, which ufu- 
ally is before the expanfion of the Flower. 
15. §. The Particles of thefe Powders, though like thofe of 
Meal or other Dutt, they appear not eafily to have any relugar fhape ; 
yet upon ftrict obfervation, efpecially with the affiftance of an indi- 
fferent Gla/s, it doth appear, That they are a Congeries, ufually, of 
fo many perfect Globes or Globulets; Sometimes of other Figures, but 
always regular. ‘That which obfcures their Figure is their being fo 
fall: In Dogs-Mercury, Borage, and very many more Plants, they 
are extreamly fo. In Mallows, and fome others, more fairly vifible. 
16. §. Some of thefe Powders, are yellow, as in Dogs-Mercury, 
Goats-Rue, &c. and fome of other Colours: But moft of them I 
think are white; and thofe of yellow Henbane very elegant; the dis- 
burs'd Powers whereof, to the naked eye, are white as Suow 5 but each 
Globulet, through a Glafs, tranfparent as Cryftal; which is not a 
fallacy from the Glas, but what we fee in all tranfparent Bodies what- 
foever, lying in a Powder or fmall Particles together The Parts of 
this Attire, fee in Tab. 4. But efpecially, in the Figures belonging 
to the Second Wart of the Fourth Wook, 
17. §. The Florid Attire, is commonly known by the blind and 
rude Name of Thrums 5 as in the Flowers of Marigold, Tanfie, &c. 
How in adequate its impofition is, obfervation will determine. For the 
feveral Thrums or rather Suits, whereof the Attire is made up, how- 
ever elfe they may differ in various Flowers, in this agree, that they 
_ are ever confiftentof more than one, fometimes of Two, and for 
* the moft part of Three Pieces ( for which I call them Suits ) and each 
Piece of a different, but agreeable and comely form. 
18. §. The outer Part of every Suit, is its Floret : whofe Body 
or Tube is divided at the top ( like that of the Cowflip ) into five 
diftina Leaves. So that a Floret, is the Epitome of a Flomer - and 
is all the Flowerthat many Plants, as Mugwort, Tanfie, and others, 
have. What the Learned Sir Thomas Brown obferveth of the 
number Five, as to the Leaves of the Flower, is {till more univerfally 
holding in thefe of the Floret. 
19. §. Uponthe Expanfion of the Floref; the next Part of the 
Suit is from within its Tube brought to fight 5 which we may ( with re- 
{pect to that within it ) call the sheath. For this alfo, like the Floret, 
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