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The Vegetable Mufk Plant is about 

 four feet in height, dividing into fe- 

 veral fmall branches. Its leaves are 

 large, and divided into three fections, 

 each of which is indented, and point- 

 ed. The flower is of a beautiful yel* 

 low colour, conflicting of five long oval 

 petals, which encircle a large piltil, 

 furrounded at its top with purple apices, 

 covered with yellow farinse. Thefe are 

 fucceeded by green conic fleihy pods, 

 about two inches in length, and one in 

 diameter. Thefe, together with the 

 leaves and branches, are guarded by 

 numerous, line, hairy fpicula, or fefa, 

 which, when the pod is ripe, have 

 ftrcngth and elafticity fufficient to create 

 a violent and painful itching, if they 

 are touched by the naked hand. The 

 internal cavity of the pod is divided 

 into longitudinal cells, correiponding 

 in number and direction 'to its external 

 E 2 angles. 



