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PROSERPINA. 



principal business of that plant being clearly to 

 grow leaves wherewith to adorn fore-grounds.* 



6. The outline of it in Sowerby is not an intel- 

 ligent one, and 

 I have not time 

 to draw it but 

 in the rudest 

 way myself; 

 Fig. I 3, a ; with 

 perspectives of 

 the elementary 

 form below, /;, 

 c, and d. By 

 help of which, 

 if you will 

 construct a bur- 

 dock leaf in 

 paper, my rude 

 outline (a) may 

 tell the rest of 

 what I want you 

 to see. 



Take a sheet 

 14, A, double it 



Fig- 13- 

 of stout note paper, 



Fig. 



sharply down the centre, by the dotted line, then 



* If you will look at the engraving, in the England and Wales 

 series, of Turner's Oakhampton, you will see its use. 



