PutocisTon, the principle of inflammability. 
MepuirTic, ill savoured, noxious, poisonous air. The sweet- 
est flowers and fruits, always exhale this mortal poison. 
Hence the danger of laying in close apartments, wherein 
even an inconsiderable number of flowers are placed. Sudden 
deaths are not rarely the consequences of such mistaken 
gratifications ; to which many persons have fallen sacrifices : 
thereby fatally depriving Mr. Pope’s ridicule of its sting ; 
by proving that the strongest man, as well the most delicate 
of the sex, may— 
“‘ Die of a rose—of aromatic pain.” 
See Ingenhausz expérience sur les végétaux. Pages 67, 68. 
