• STUDY XI. I37 



diftinguim in them, a pavilion, two wings, and a 

 ridge, ufually divided into two, by which the an- 

 thera? and the embryon of the fruit are clofely co- 

 vered over. Between the Tropics, accordingly, 

 a great number of trees, fhrubs, creepers, and 

 graflès, have papilionaceous flowers. Every fpe- 

 cies of our peafe and french- beans, fucceed there 

 wonderfully well, and thofe countries produce in- 

 finite varieties of them. Nay, it is remarkable, 

 that even at home, thofe plants delight in a fandy 

 and warm foil, and exhibit their flowers in the 

 middle of Summer. I confider leguminous flow- 

 ers, therefore, as of the parafai kind. To thofe 

 fame negative effects of the Sun may, likewife, be 

 referred the form of flowers with gullets, which 

 conceal their anthers, fuch as the calfs-ïhout, 

 which takes pleafure in blowing on the fides of 

 walls. 



Elliptical reverberating flowers are thofe 

 which prefent oval-formed cups, narrower a-top 

 than in the middle. It is very perceptible that this 

 form of cup, the perpendicular petals of which ap- 

 proach toward each other at the fummit, fhelters, 

 in part, the bottom of the flower : and that the 

 curves of thefe fame petals, which have feveral fo- 

 cufes, do not collect, the rays of the Sun toward 

 one Angle centre : fuch is the tulip. It is re- 

 markable, that this oblong-formed flower is more 



common 



