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grow old and expand, they feem to lofe their regular form, 

 and become more confufed, till at laft, when arrived at its 

 full perfection, they range themfelves parallel to the lips 

 of the calix, and perpendicular to the ftamina, in the fame 

 order as a rofe. The common receptacle of the flower is 

 oblong, and very capacious, of a yellow colour, and covered 

 with fmall leaves like hair. The fttle is plain, ample, and 

 upright, and covered at the bottom with a tuft of down,, 

 and is below the common receptacle of the flower. 



As this flower is of a complicated nature, I have given 

 two figures of it, the one where the flower is feen in face, 

 the other in the outfide. The ftamina are three fliort fila- 

 ments inferted in the fegment of the flower near the fum- 

 mit. 



I have obferved, in the middle of a very hot day, that the 

 flowers unbend themfelves more, the calix feems to expand, 

 and the whole flower to turn itfelf towards the fun in the 

 fame manneras does the fun- flower. When the branch is cut, 

 the flower dries as it were inftantaneoufly, fo that it feems 

 to contain very little humidity. 



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