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ERGETT TDIMMO. 



THE two beautiful fhrubs which I have here given to 

 the reader are called by the name of Ergett, which we 

 may fuppofe, in Abyflinian botany, to be the generic name 

 of the rnimofa, as both of thefe have the fame name, and 

 both of the fame family, of which there are many varieties 

 in Abyflinia. 



This firM is called the Bloody Ergett, as we may fuppofe 

 'from the pink filaments of which this beautiful and un- 

 common flower is in part compofed, and which we may 

 therefore call Mimofa Sanguinea. The upper part of the 

 flower is compofed of curled, yellow filaments, and the bot- 

 tom a pink of the fame ftrudture. I never faw it in any o- 

 ther flate. Before the blofToms fpread it appears in the 

 form here exhibited. The pink, or lower part, in its unripe 

 ilate, is compofed of green tubercules, larger and more de- 

 tached than where the yellow flower is produced, whofe tu- 

 bercules are fmaller and clofer fet together, I need not fay the 



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