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not to be found, at lead as far as I know, in the 

 flowers or in the fruits of lofty trees ; for, in this 

 cafe, they would be confounded with the Hea- 

 vens ; but it is very common on the ground, in 

 the flowers of herbs, fuch as the blue-bottle, the 

 fcabious, the violet, the liverwort, the iris, and 

 many others. On the contrary, the colour of the 

 earth is very common in the fruits of lofty trees, 

 fuch as the cheftnut, the walnut, the cocoa-nut, 

 and the cone of the pine. Hence we have an 

 intimation, that the point of view of this magni- 

 ficent picture was taken from the eye of Man. 



Nature, after having diftinguifhed the harmonic 

 colour of each vegetable, by the contrafting colour 

 of it's flowers, and of it's fruits, has followed the 

 fame laws in the forms which ("he has given them. 

 The moft beautiful of forms, as we have feen, is 

 the fpherical form ; and the mod agreeable con- 

 trail which it is capable of forming, is when found 

 in oppofition to the radiating form. You will fre- 

 quently find this form and it's contraft in the ag- 

 gregation of the flowers that go by the name of ra- 

 diated, as the daify, which has a circle of fmall 

 white divergent petals, furrounding it's yellow 

 difk : we find it, likewife, with other combina- 

 tions, in the blue-bottle, in the afters, and a mul- 

 titude of other fpecies. When the radiating parts 

 of the flower are outermost, the fpherical parts are 



inmoft, 



