I4£ OF BUDS, 



of the flower necessary to their perfection* 

 So likewise the seeds of Mints, a tribe of 

 plants which increase excessively by roots, 

 have hardly been detected by any botanist ; 

 and it is asserted by Doody in Ray's Synopsis, 

 that when the elegant little Ornithopus per- 

 pusillus, EngL Hot. t. 369, does not pro- 

 duce pods, it propagates itself by the grains 

 or tubercles of its root* though in general 

 the root is annual. 



