SECT. VI. THE FLOWER. 38? 



But the figure of the leaf, however singular, is 

 generally the same throughout the same individual, 

 except in the case of accidental deformity, and yet 

 there are exceptions even to this rule. For some- 

 times the lower leaves of a plant are entire while 

 the upper leaves are divided, as occurs in a variety 

 of mountainous plants, such as Barnet, Saxifrage, 

 Anise, Coriander ; and sometimes the lower leaves 

 are divided while the upper leaves are entire, as in 

 the case of a variety of aquatics, particularly Ra- 

 nunculus aquaticus, in which the lower leaves are 

 capillary and immersed, and the upper leaves flat 

 and circular, floating on the surface of the water. 

 But sometimes the dissimilitude of the leaves is still 

 more remarkable. The Chinese Mulberry has not 

 two leaves alike in form on the whole plant. And 

 lastly, there are some plants, as in the case of the 

 Fungi, that are wholly destitute of leaves, and hence 

 called aphyllous ; while there are others, as in the 

 case of the Fuci, that seem to be wholly leaf. 



SECTION VI. 

 The Flower. 



THE principal anomaly relative to the flower is 

 that by which one of its parts is unduly augmented, 

 to the exclusion or diminution of some of the rest. 

 The flower is then said to be luxuriant, and com- 



