
Book I. of Plants. 
isa Concave Body; mits fhape very well refembling the: Fiftulous 
Pouches of Wake-Robin, or of Dragon. 
20, §. The Sheath, after fome time; dividing at the top, ftom 
within its Concave the Third and innermoft part of the Swit, ce. . the 
Blade advanceth and difplayes it felf This Part is not hollow, as 
the other two, but folid; yet at itsPoint, iscommonly, divided into 
two_ halves. 
21. §. About the faid Point efpecially, there appears, Globulets, 
which are of the fame nature with thofe of a semet, though not fo 
copious. So that all Flowers have their Powders or Globulets. The 
whole 4ttire may in Affer Per, Blewbottle, &c. where the Suits are 
large, be plainly obferved without a Glafs. The Parts of this Attire, 
See in Tab, 4. But efpectally in the Figvres belonging to the Second 
Bart of the Fourth Wook. 
22. §. The ufe ofthe Attire, how contemptibly foever we may 
look upon it, is certainly gredt. And though for our own ufe we 
value the Leaves of the Flower, or the Foliation, moft; yet of all 
the three Parts, thisin fome refpeéts is the choyceft, as for whofe 
fake and fervice the other two are made. The ufé hereof, as to 
Ornament and DiftinGion, is unqueftionable 5 but is not all. As for 
Diftin@ion, though, by the help of Glafes, we may make it to ex- 
tend far; yet in a paffant view, which is all-we ufually make, we 
cannot fo well. _ As for Ornament, and particularly in reference to the 
Semets, we may ask, If for that meerly thefe were meant, then why 
fhould they be fo made asto break open, or to contain any thing 
within them > Since their Beauty would be as good if they were not 
hollow ; and is better before they crack and burft open, than after- 
wards. 
23. g. Other ufes hereof thetefore we muft acknowledge, and 
may obferve. Oneis, for food ; for Ornament and Diftinétion to 
us, and for Food to other Avimals. I will not fay, but thatit may ferve 
even to thefe for Diftinétion too, that they may be able to know one 
Plant from another, and in their flight or progre&S fettle where they 
like beft : and that therefore the varieties of thefe{mall parts are many, 
and well obferved by them, which we take no notice of. Yet the 
finding out of Food is but in order to enjoy it: Which, that it is 
provided for a vaft number of little Animals in the Attires of all 
Flowers, obfervation perfwades us to believe. -For why elfe are they 
evermore here found? Go from one Flower to another, great and 
{mall, you fhall meet with none untaken up with thefe Guefts. In 
fome, and particularly the Suz-Flower, where the parts of the Aftire, 
and the Azimals for which they provide, are larger, the matter is more 
vifible, We muft not think, that God Almi,bty hath left any of the 
whole Family of his Creatures unprovided for; but as the Great 
Mafter, fome where or other carveth out to all; and that for a 
great number of thefe little Folk, He hath ftored up their peculiar 
provifions in the Aftires of Flowers ; each Flower thus becoming their 
Lodging and their Dining-Room, both in one. 
24. §. Wherein the particular parts of the Attire may be more dif 
tingly ferviceable, this to one Avimal, and that to another, [ cannot 
fay: Or to the fame Avimal, asa Bee, whether this for the Howey, ano- 
ther for their Bread, a third forthe Wax: Or whether all only re 
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