!! 



fcisft you witlt fresh motives for. adii?-: :!;"!y 



of her ways. That is a b_'ij \viiicii <:, df from 



the cluster, and that tloa'ts aloi to tix itself to 



soiTie S5p\;< rt : lollow.it. A - -vies from 



its evtreiijiy ; and the bell 



this pedicle : k lengthens, and 1 a little si 



It is iio longer a nosegay >ou are behold 

 gle flower. , Redouble your ;\ttf j 



T cJ at the most interesting moment oi bisection : the 

 ll^vveris closed, h;is v iobt its form of a bell, and assumed 

 that of a bud. You, perhaps, suspect that this bud b 

 some fruit, or a seed that has succeeded to the fiower : 

 lor you ure loth to give up }oui jr:st coijeclure. Do 

 not lose sight of t!j;s bud: it is ir. : >i^t 



ia at present sup-. 



j. :i \* .'.! Wo i>u.ds, less UiHii the first. Kxamme what 

 j s in both of them : they widen themselves insen- 

 s ly, and you. perceive a motion at the edge of tije 

 which increases in suiftuess in proportion as 

 tiie i/u<i unfolds itself. The niil appears a^ain ; and 

 the two tuds have assumed the form of a bell. Can a 

 fruit, which changes into iiowers, be a real fruit? Can 

 such flowers be real flowers] that swallow little insects.? 

 Sn?p< ml >our observations, and lepeat them a few hours-- 

 hence: yrui flowers are closed up as the first was.; yovu 

 easily guess that they will .sepai ate themselves as before, 

 aftenvaids open, and present. ^ou with, four bells. That. 

 is already effected, and >ou have a little nosegay, com-,- 

 posed of lour flowers: if you continue year inspection^, 

 \o-ti will see them augment in bnik by new divisions 

 into two's, arid soon after you will count sixteen, thirty- 

 two, sixty-four flowers. Such is the origin of this mi- 

 croscopical parterre, which at first drew your attention : 

 Low much inoi^e admirable does it now appear than you 

 then conceived it to be ! Wjiat a group of wopders 

 does a single spot of mouldiness afior.d ! What unfore- 

 seen, varied, and interesting scenes, are .tran-acted -on a 

 scrap of rotten wood! What a theatre does it exhibit. 

 to a thinking being! But onr abode. is so rechibe, that 

 we have but a glimmering vitw of it; how great would 



