•Î2Ô STUDIES Of NATURE. 



whofe colours are the deepeft, or thofe whofe pan- 

 nicies are divergent» 



Not that Nature has no other refources except 

 fuch as thefe, to make plants of the fame genus 

 attain perfection in different feafons and climates. 

 She can render their flowers capable of reflecting 

 the heat, in different degrees of Latitude, without 

 any very fenfible alteration of the form. Some- 

 times fhe mounts them on elevated ftems, to re- 

 move them from the influence of the reflection of 

 the ground. It is thus (lie has placed, between 

 the Tropics, mod of the apparent flowers upon 

 trees. I have feen but few there in the meadows, 

 but a great many in the forefts. In thofe coun- 

 tries, you muft look aloft, in order to have a fight 

 of flowers; in our native climes, we muft caft 

 our eyes on the ground, for this purpofe ; for 

 with us flowers grow on herbage and fhrubbery. 

 Sometimes (he expands them under the fhade of 

 leaves ; fuch are thofe of the palm-tree, of the 

 banana, and of the jacquier, which grow clofe to 

 the trunk of the tree. Such, likewife, are, in our 

 temperate climates, thofe large white bell-formed 

 flowers, known by the name of Lady's-fmock, 

 which delight in the Iliade of the willow. 



There are others, fuch as molt part of the con- 



volvolufes, which expand only in the night ; others 



. • grow 



