STUDY XI. I45 



may be remarked with regard to the flowers of 

 Solomon's feal, of the lily of the valley, of the 

 hyacinth, of the narchTus, of moft of the liliaceous, 

 and of plants which bear their flowers ifolated, on 

 perpendicular Items. 



Flowers have, farther, very curious relations 

 with animals and with Man, from the diverfity of 

 their configurations, and from their fmells. Thofe 

 of one fpecies of the orchis reprefent bugs, and 

 exhales the fame unpleafant odour. Thofe of a 

 fpecies of the arum refembles putrid flefh, and has 

 the infection of it to fuch a degree, that the flefli- 

 fly reforts thither to depofit her eggs. But thofe 

 relations, hitherto very fuperficially investigated, 

 do not come in fo properly under this article 5 it 

 is fufficieBt for me to have here demonftrated, that 

 they actually have very clearly marked relations 

 with the elements, and efpecially with the Sun. 



When Botanifts (hall have diffufed over this 

 branch of the fubject all the light of which it is 

 fufceptible, by examining their focufes, the eleva- 

 tion to which they rife above the ground, the 

 Ihelter, or the reflection of the bodies which are in 

 their vicinity, the variety of their colours, in a 

 word, all the means by which Nature compenfates 

 the differences of their feveral expofures, and they 

 will no longer doubt about thofe elementary har- 



vol. in. L monies^ 



