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14. I turn to another scientific gentleman more sci- 

 entific in form indeed, Mr. Grindon, and find, for an- 

 other interesting phenomenon in the violet, that it some- 

 times produces flowers without any petals! and in the 

 pansy, that " the flowers turn towards the sun, and when 

 many are open at once, present a droll appearance, look- 

 ing like a number of faces all on the ' qui vive.' 5: But 

 nothing of the difference between them, except some- 

 thing about ' stipules,' of which "it is important to ob- 

 serve that the leaves should be taken from the middle of 

 the stem those above and below being variable." 



I observe, however, that Mr. Grindon has arranged 

 his violets under the letter A, and his pansies under the 

 letter B, and that something may be really made out of 

 him, with an hour or two's work. I am content, how- 

 ever, at present, with his simplifying assurance that of 

 violet and pansy together, " six species grow wild in 

 Britain or, as some believe, only four while the ana- 

 lysts run the number up to fifteen." 



15. Xext I try London's Cyclopaedia, which, through 

 all its TOO pages, is equally silent on the business ; and 

 next, Mr. Baxter's 'British Flowering Plants,' in the 

 index of which I find neither Pansy nor Heartsease, and 

 only the ' Calathian ' Yiolet, (where on earth is Cala- 

 thia ?) which proves, on turning it up, to be a Gentian. 



10. At last, I take my Figuier, (but what should I do 

 if I. only knew English ?) and find this much of clue to 

 the matter : 



