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Although the painting f of this tree, which I here exhibit- 

 is neither more nor lefs accurate in the delineation of its- 

 parts than every other defign of natural hiftory given in 

 this work to the public, yet the inimitable beauty of the 

 fubject itfelf has induced me to bellow much more pains 

 upon it than any other I have publifhedj and, according to 

 my judgment, it is the beft executed in this collection. All 

 its parts are fo diflinctly figured, the flower expofed in fuch, 

 variety of directions, that it fuperfedes the neceflky of de- 

 scribing it to the fkilful botanift, who will find here every 

 thing he poffibly could in the flower itfelf. This is a great 

 advantage, for if the parts had been ever fo ftudiouily and; 

 carefully referved in a hortusficcus as they are fpread upon, 

 the paper, it would have been impomble not to have loft 

 fome of its finer members, they are fo fragil, as I have often, 

 experienced indifferent attempts to dry and preferve it. 



The flower confifts of five petals, part of each overlapping 

 or fupporting the other, fo that it maintains its regular fi- 

 gure of a cup till the leaves fall ofF, and does not fpread 

 and disjoin firft, as do the generality of thele rofaceous 

 flowers before they fall to the ground. Its colour is a pure 

 white, in the midft of which is a kind of fheatli, or involu- 

 crura, of a beautiful pink colour, which furrounds the piftil,. 

 covering and concealing about one- third of it. Upon the 

 top of this is a kind of impalement, confuting of five white 

 upright threads, and between each of thefe are difpofed; 

 three very feeble {lamina- of unequal lengths, which make 

 them Hand in a triangular oblong form, covered with yel- 

 low farina. 



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