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ANATOMY 
FLOWERS 
PART HE. 


Ce HvAGPe obs 
Of the EMPALEME NT. 
NEXT proceed to the Flower. Where I intend 
= not torepeat thofe things, which have been by Me 
=4 already noted in the Firs# ook. And the forego- Ch. & 
ing Difcourfe of Leaves, will excufe me from di-“” * 
vers particulars, common to Thefe and the Flower. 
s; I fhall here therefore remarque forme things not be- 
SSSGSS fore mentioned, or but 77 tranfitw , and fuch as 
are moreparticular to the Flower; 
2. g. And Firft, it may benoted ; That where the Leaves of the 
Flower are few; thofe of the Empalement or Green Border, are cither 
ofthe fame Number, or juft half as many, whether even, or odd. So 
in Leucanthenum and Chickweed, there are Five Leaves; inthe former 
Five Empalers; in the latter, Ten, In Great Celandine, there are 
Four Leaves, and but Two Evpalers; and {o in Poppy. The Arith- 
metick of Nature being every where fuitable to Her Geometry. 
3. §, OF this Part of the Flower it is likewife obfervable, That 
it is rarely, if ever, entire or one piece, but parted into divers little 
Leafy Pales, efpecially in all Flowers with the Florid Attire, as of Mari- 
gold, Daify andthe like; being fo humerous, as to make a Double, and 
often a Treble, Quadruple or Quintuple Border. Whereby they are apt- 
ly defigned, not only to proteé the Leaves of the Flower in the Buds 
and after their Expanfion, to keep them tite: but alfo; by receding, 
Bredthways, one from another, and fo making a greater Circle, gra- 
dually to give way for the full Growth and fafe fpreading of the 4f- 
tire. Which, in regard it confifts of Parts eye tender, Were 
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