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the little florets, seated upon one com- 

 mon receptacle, and inclosed in the same 

 calyx. Each of these florets, is embel- 

 lished with an ivory -looking shaft or pillar, 

 passing through a cylinder, which appears 

 as if supported by five recurved pillars, of 

 which the heads or anthers, form the cy- 

 linder, and contain within them a fine and 

 subtile powder. Yet though apparently a 

 subtile powder, the pollen, for so the 

 dust is called, presents, when magnified, 

 an infinite variety of small cases inclosing 

 a still more subtile pow^der ; and not even 

 the flakes of snow, that fall in winter, are 

 more singularly varied. The pollen of the 

 common red crane'sbill, is a perfect glo- 

 bule, that of the marsh-mallow resembles the 

 wheel of a w'atch, in the pansy it is trian- 

 gular, in the narcissus kidney-shaped. But, 

 however, varied or dissimilar, they each re- 

 main entire till acted upon by heat or mois- 



