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our reach by some very simple means. In 

 general, whatever checks the luxuriant production of 

 leaf-buds, favours the formation of flowers and seeds. 

 That variety, or perhaps species, of the Orange Lily, 

 Lilium bulbifcrum, which is most prolific in buds, sel- 

 dom forms seeds, or even those organs of the flower 

 necessary to their perfection. So likewise the seeds of 

 Mints, a tribe of plants which increase excessively by 

 roots, have hardly been detected by any botanist ; and 

 it is asserted by Doody in Ray's Synopsis, that when 

 the elegant little Ornithopus ptrpiislllus^ Engl. Bot, 

 t. 369, does not produce pods, it propagates itself by 

 the grains or tubercles of its root, though in general 

 the root is annual. 



