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caterpillar and of chrysalis. Again, we may notice that the 

 vital principle common to the insect and the plant though in 

 the latter unaccompanied by indication of mind often puts on 

 no less curious correspondences. 



As well as ephemeral flowers there are ephemeral insects. 

 The gauzy wings of the May-fly, like the delicate petals of the 

 cistus, strew the ground in a few brief hours after their ex- 

 pansion ; and the Favonia,^ which displays its crimson glories in 

 the beams of morning (as is the case often with the ephemeral 

 insect) is, like it, dead by noon-day. There are certain flowers, 

 such as the goatVbeard, &c., which are known to time their 

 opening at certain hours of the day ; and so, in like manner, 

 various moths have been observed to emerge from their chrysalis- 

 covering with equal regularity. 



Again, the daisy, the pimpernel, and many other flowers, 

 show the nicest sensibility to atmospheric changes, by always 

 shutting up their petals at the approach of bad weather; and 

 the bee, the butterfly, and other insects, with an instinctive 

 prescience of coming showers, hide within the flower-cups, or 

 close their wings, fearfully resting from their labours or their 

 pleasures. 



Numerous also are the properties and productions common 

 to plants and insects, with a few of which we must close our 

 very imperfect enumeration of resembling points between 

 them. In fragrance, even the rose is emulated by a pretty 



* Tigridia fa/oonia,. 



