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; can, 

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^y^ems 



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- corols and 

 ^"ficatlon of 

 > unrivalled 

 e next mod 



'<! or multi. 

 :ra of many 

 J 1 u 3 poirelles 





finale ones 



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neo is (o re- 

 the corolla 

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re they 



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being 



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lay 



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Sect. XIX, i, 2. 



OF FLOWERS. 



535 



And repeat 



bfervajtioii from L 



the piflllla of the 



female hemp, cannabis, continued much longer to exift when not 



pofed to the male poll 



th 



thofe piftilla on which the poll 



had been efFufed. Trads on Nat. Hift. p 



17 



It may be obferved, that many infeds may be called annual ones 

 as well as many vegetables, and die, as foon as they haye provided the 

 eggs or feeds for the reprodu£lion of their fpecies, as the filjcworra, 

 and, I fuppofe, all the kinds of moths and butterflies ; many of 

 which take no food at all, after they have acquired their organs of 



HI, and yet appear fat and adive ; 



d fee 



m 



to d 



as 



foon 



as 



that 



generation and their amatorial paffioi 

 and others live only upon honey, ai 

 pafTion is gratified, probably from having no further pleafureable fl 

 jlus to excite the animal power into adivity, rather than from i 



m 



exhauftion : becauf( 



whofe exiftence 



not na- 



lly fo ftiort, are not injured or dejfiroyed by the moderate ufe of 



the powers of reprodu6t 



d that power leaves them long before 



their death 



A 



periment to fhew, whether the moths of filk 



paramours, might be 



worms would live longer if deprived of their 

 worth the attention of naturalifts ; and alfo, whether the butterflies 

 of our climate might not be preferved during the winter, if fed with 

 honey like bees, and kept from exceffive cold. I direded fome honey 



w 



to be offered to the filkworm-butterflies, which they would not 



attetid to, 

 climates. 



though they 



may probably feek for it in their native 



2. Varieties in the colours of fingle flowers ralfed from feed 



s 



may probably be generally acquired by fowing near together thofe 



o 



of the fame fpecies, which already poflefs different colours; fo that 

 during the difperfion of their anther-duft by the. wind, or other wife, 

 they may intermix and adulterate each other. Or this may be more 

 certainly effecfled by bending the flowers of one colour, and (baking 

 the anther-duft over thpfe of another colour. In this manner, I 



fuppofe, 



