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Tab. 63. 
Tbe Anatomy ~ Book IV: 
5. §. The fame may alfo be feen about the end of Augu/t or the be- 
ginning of September in a Tulip-Root. In which, the Two Inmoft Shells 
dryer than the reft, {tand hollow, withthe little young Flower (which 
appears in March or April following) inclofed now in their Cextre. Being 
thus kept ware and dry, leftit fhould either perith, or be precipitated 
upon the Wixter, by {prouting too foon. 
6. §. From hence it is plain, That although the Flower appears be- 
fore the Seed yet if the comparifon be made betwixt the Flower and 
Seed of the fame year; the Seed is firft formed, and afterward the 
Flower. That is, the Seed, for which Nature choofes the Firft- 
born Sap, is formed in the fore part of the year: which work being 
finifhed, out of the lefs fecund part of the Sap, the Flowers intended 
for the Sire and Matrix of the next years Seed ; is afterwards produced. 
7. §. THE true Time of the Generation of the Flower being 
know’n, it may alfo be an Inducement to make Tryal, for the bringing 
of many Flowers to grow fairly in Winter,which are ufed to grow, that 
is, to appear, only in the spring and Summer: Jc. by keeping the Plants 
warm, and thereby enticing the young lurking Flowers to come abroad, 


The Appendix. 
Being a Method propofed, for the ready finding, by the 
Leaf and Flower, to what Sort any Plant belongeth. 



Ry LTAOUGH many have beftowed extraordina- 
+ xy Care and Induftry upon the fearching out, and 
@ Defcription of Plants; and for the reducing of 
them to their feveral Trzbes : yet I will take leave, 
\Z here to propofe a fhort Method whereby Learn- 
ers, feeing a Plant they know not, may be infor- 
AP med to what Sort it belongs, and fo be directed 
where to find it defcribed and difcourfed of. For, except they have 
a Mafter to conduct them,which few have; they muft needs,by feeking 
at random,lofe a great deal of time, which by a regular Enquiry might 
be faved. Befides, that what is learned by their own Obfervation, 
will abide much longer on their mind, than what they are only Poyn- 
ted to, by another. 
2. §. Nowthe moft Philofophickh way of diftinguifhing or forting 
of Plants, were by the Charatteriftick Properties in all Parts, both Com- 
pounded, Conftituents, and Contents. But of the Compounded, the Seeds, 
and fome other Parts, are oftentimes very minute: and the Roots always 
lie hid. Asalfo the Continent Parts, every where, without cuting and 
the ufe of Glafés. Nor can the Contents be accurately obferved other- 
wife. So that for the Ofe here intended, thofe Properties are the fiteft 
to be infifted upon, which are the moft Confpicuouvs, and in thofe Parts, 
where the Learner may the moft readily and without any difficulty 
take notice of them 5 as in the Flower and Leaf. The Flower hath 
Varieties enough of it felf But in regard it is often wanting, when the 
Green Leaf is not 5 it is therefore convenient, that he be affifted 
by 
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