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beyond it's fummit. Flowers of this fort are fre- 

 quent between the Tropics ; fuch is the flower of 

 the poincillade of the Antilles, otherwife called 

 the peacock-flower, on account of it's beauty ; fuch 

 is alfo the vajiurtium, or nun of Peru. It is even 

 pretended that the perennial fpecies is phofphoric 

 in the night-time. 



Flowers with plane mirrors produce the fame 

 effects ; and Nature has multiplied the models of 

 them in our Summer flowers, and in thofe which 

 thrive in warm and fandy foils, as the radiated ; 

 fuch are the flowers of the dandelion. We like- 

 wife meet with them in the flowers of the doroni- 

 cum> of the lettuce, of the fuccory ; in the afters, 

 in the meadow daify, and others. But fhe has 

 placed the original model of them under the Line, 

 in America, in the broad Sun-flower, which we 

 have borrowed from Brafil. 



Thefe being flowers whofe petals have the lead 

 activity, are likewife thofe which are of the longefl 

 duration. Their attitudes are varied without end. 

 Such as are horizontal, like thofe of the dandelion, 

 clofe, it is faid, toward the middle of the day ; 

 they are, likewife, fuch as are the moft expofed to 

 the action of the Sun, for they receive his rays 

 from his rifing to his fetting. 



There 



