î$2 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



reer fo rich in obfervations, and to correcl: my er- 

 rors by communicating fome portion of their 

 knowledge. 



There are, therefore, reverberating flowers per- 

 pendicular, conical y fpherical, elliptical, parabolic, 

 or plane. To thefe curves may be referred mod 

 of the curves of flowers. There are, likewife, 

 fome flowers in form of a parafol, but the others 

 are much more numerous ; for the negative ef- 

 fects, in every harmony, are in much greater num- 

 ber than the pofitive effects. For example, there 

 is but one fingle way of coming into life, and 

 there are thoufands of going out of it. We (hall 

 oppofe, however, to every pofitive relation of 

 flowers to the Sun, a principal negative relation, 

 that we may be enabled to compare their effects in 

 every Latitude. 



Perpendicular reverberating flowers are thofe 

 which grow adhering by the back, to a cone, to 

 long catkins, or to an ear: fuch are thofe of the 

 cçdar, of the larch, of the fir, of the birch, of the 

 juniper ; of mod of the northern gramineous 

 plants, of the vegetables of cold and lofty moun- 

 tains, as the cyprefs and the pine ; or of thofe 

 which flower in our climates about the end of 

 - Winter, as the hazel and the willow. A part of 



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