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belliferous Kind, is the more odorous. And therefore. alfo; the Vixe 
hath no Flower, partly, that the moft Volatile Spirit and Sulphur might 
all run into the Fruit. 
20. §. THE Figure of the Flower, although it is often much more 
complex, than that of the Leaf: yet there is no doubt, but that the 
Meafire hereof may be defined in fome way, anfwerable to that exem- 
plified in the foregoing Patt, The difference is only this, That 
whereas the Green Leaves, and the Plain Leaves alfo of the Flower, are 
all meafured by the parts of feveral Circles: thofe Flowers which 
are Bellyed, and thofe Leaves of the Flower which are not Plain, 
but Convex, are all meafured by the parts of feveral Spheres. And as 
the Diametres of thofe Circles, bear a certain proportion to the midle 
Stemm of the Leafs fo the Axes of thefe spheres, to an imaginary 
one in the Cevtre of the Flower. 
ar. §. NOW the reafon why the Figure of the Flower 1s more 
multiplex, than that of the Leaf; may be, partly, becaufe it.is under 
the Command and Government of thofe Salis, which are here more 
refined and depurate, than in the Leaf; and fo more free to lay the Foun- 
dation of any kind of Figure, for which, of their own Nature, they are 
adapted. Partly, for that as the Nitrous and Alkaline Salts are chiefly 
regnant inthe Leaf fo in the Flower, in which the Parenchymows Part x 
hath a greater (2) proportion than in the Leaf it is moft reafonable, ( S17; 
to aflign the Predominion to the Acid (b): the Particles whereof,both as Ceres, 
they are lefs,and alfo poynted at both ends, («) feem to be more eafily 7.) 7 
_applicable one to another for the making of any Sort of Lize or Figure. Ch Ad 2 




CHAP. IIL 
Of the Active, and firft of that fort which may bé called 
Seminiform. 
2 ITHIN the Foliatare ftands the Artire; which is 
of Two general Kinds, every where Various and 
Elegant; according to the Dejcription I have given 
of them inthe Firft Wook, 1 fhall here add fome Cf, 5. 
» further Remarques. 
2, § And firft, of that Sort of Attire, which 
f pu may be called Seminiform 5 being ‘ufually, as_it 
were, alittle Sheaf of Seed-like Particles 5 ftanding on fo many Pe- 
dicills, as the Ear doth upon the End of the Straw. 
Of their Colour it is obfervable, That for the moft part, they 
are White or Yellow 5 fometimes Blew 3 but never Red, let the Flower 
on Foliature be of what Colour it will. Neither doth their Colour all- 
ways follow that of the Foliature, although that be not Red. Where- 
by it appears, how very Curious and Critical Nature is, in the Separa- 
tion of the Fuyces in Plants: that {uch {mall Parts as thefe of the Aftire, 
and fo nearthe Leaves of the Flower, fhould yet receive a different 
Tindure. 

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