The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun: With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereonGrew, Nehemiah
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The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun: With a General Account of Vegetation founded thereon
Grew, Nehemiah
Botany -- Pre-Linnean works; Plant anatomy
The Leaves of the _Flower_, though they are not hairy all over, yet in
some particular parts they are often set with a fine Downy Velvet; that,
being by their shape and posture in those parts contiguous to their
delicate and tender Attire, they may thus give it a more softly and
warmer touch. Thus in the Flower of _Ladies Bower_, those parts of its
Leaves which rowl inward, and lie contiguous to the Attire, are Downy;
whereas the other parts are plain and smooth: So the Flowers of _Pease_,
_Spanish Broom_, _Toad-Flax_, and many others, where contiguous to their
Attires, are deck’d with the like _Hairy Velvet_.
As upon the Green Leaves, so upon the Flowers are _Globulets_ sometimes
seen; as upon the backside of that of _Enula_. On none more plainly
than that kind of _Blattaria_ with the white Flower; where they are all
transparent, and growing both on the Stalk and Leaves of the _Flower_,
each shewing likewise its _Peduncle_ whereon it is erected.
The use of the _Flower_, or the _Foliation_ whereof we now speak, (that
is, as to its private service) is for the protection of the Attire;
this, as its under, and the _Empalement_ as its upper Garments; as
likewise of the _Fruit_: The necessity of which Service, in some Cases,
by the different situation of the _Flower_ and _Fruit_, with respect to
each other, is evident; _Apples_, _Pears_, and several other _Fruits_,
standing behind or under the _Flower_; but _Cherries_, _Apricots_, and
divers others, within it; for these, being of a very tender and pulpous
Body, and withal putting forth with the colder part of the Spring, could
not weather it out against the Variations and Extremities of the Air, (as
those of a more solid _Parenchyma_ can) except lodged up within their
_Flowers_.
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