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The Anatomy Book IV. 

Tab. 55 
B.1. Chg. 
14. §. The Number of the Leaves, as hath been faid, iscommonly 
Five. Yetfome Flowers have fewer, and fome more, and that with 
Conftancy, in divers Numbers, from Oxe to Oxe and Twenty 3 perhaps 
in all, fo far. The Flower of Acanthus Syriacus, isin a manner one 
fingle Leaf, that of mowks-Rubarb, Three-Leav'ds of Poppy, Crofs- 
wort, Radifh, and many others, Four-Leav'd ; the greater Number of 
Flowers, Five-Leav'd; of White Hellebore, Tulip, Onion, and moft 
Plants with Bulbous Roots, Six-Leav'ds of Wild-Crowfoot, Seven- 
Leav'd 5 of French Marigold, commonly Eight-Leau'd , of Flower-de- 
luce, Nine-Leav'd;, of Chickweed, Ladies-Mantle, Ten-Leav'ds of St. 
James's Wort, Thirteen-Leav'd, and think of Febrifiga, Cotula, Age- 
ratum, Corn: Marigold, with others; and of Chamemile, Buphthal- 
mum, and fome few more, the Leaves are commonly Oxe and Twenty. 
In that of St, Fames’s Wort ,* the Number is {o conftant that there is 
fcarce OxeF lower in Forty, wherein the Leaves are more or fewer than 
Thirteen. Divers of which Numbers, feem alfo to have fome relation to 
the Number 5. For 9, is Twice 5 13, Thrice 5 and 25, Five times 5 run- 
ning into it felf. 
15. § THE Coxftituent Parts of the Flower arethe fame asthofe 
of the Leaf, fc.the Parexchyma or Pulp,and the Vefels. But in the Bafis 
or bottom of the Flower, the Parenchyma is commonly much more {pon 
gyand dry, thanin the Leaves 5 conteining, after the Flower is open’d, 
little or no Sap, but only a dry and warm der. Which ftanding con- 
tinually under the Seed,haftens the Maturation or due Exiccatioz there- 
of: as we ufe to dry Maulted Barly over a warm Killz. 
16. §. The Vefféls ofthe Flower, are both for Sap and for Aer, as 
well asin other Parts. And both of them fometimes, even in the skiz 
of the Flower 5 as may be argued from its being ftained with divers 
, Colours 5 produced as hath formerly been fhewed, by the mixed 
Tinures of the {aid Vefels. Thefe Colours, in many Flowers, as Tu- 
lips, asthey are in the Skin it felf, fo therein only 5 the Pylp of the 
Leaf being white. 
17. §. The Ligvous or Sap-Vefels are fewer,and the Aer-Veffels {mal- 
ler in the Flower, thanin the Leaf. And therefore it is very difficult 
to obferve the latter by Glaffes 5 efpecially the Proportion which they 
hold to the other Parts. But if you break the Leaves of fome Flowers, 
with very great gentlenefs; they may hereby be Uxroaved or drawn 
out, as in the Green Leaves, to fome vifible length; and their different 
Number in divers Flowers may be difcerned. 
18. ¢. THE Ofe ofthe Flower or of the Foliature whereof we 
are f{peaking, is various 5 as hath formerly been fhewed. I now only 
add, That one Uf hereof feemeth to be, for the Separation of the 
more Volatile and ftronger Sulphur of the Plant. That fo the Seed, 
which lyeth within or next it,may be fomuch the milder,and the Priz- 
ciples thereof more fixed and concentred. And this, both for its bet- 
ter Duration till the time of Sowing; and alfo, that its Fermevtation, 
when it is fow’n, may not be too hot and precipitates but fuitable to 
fo flow and equal a motion, as is the Vegetation of a Seed. 
19. §. Andthat this Swiphur is {eparated and difcharged by the 
Flower, feems evident, not only from the Strength of its Odour, above 
that of the other Parts 5 but likewife, in that many times where there 
is no Flower,or that very fmall, the Seed, that is its Cover,as in the Om- 
belliferous 

