FETID S TAP EL I A, 



OR THE 



CARRION-FLOWER. 



Generic Character. 



Corolla (lightly twifted towards one fide. 

 Nefiary in form of a double ftar in the middle of 

 the corolla. 



Pentandria Digy?iia. 



Specific Character, &c. 



STAPELIA with the denticles of the branches 

 upright. 



THE CARRION-FLOWER. 



The fragrance emitted by the major part of the 

 vegetable world is fuch as to be regarded amongft the 

 moft elegant and valuable attributes of plants ; and the 

 ingenuity of mankind has been ftudioufly employed in 

 collecting, preferving, and concentrating it. So 

 great is the variety of vegetable perfumes that it is 

 hardly poflible to enumerate the different kinds. 

 Without particularizing the rofe, the violet, the car- 

 nation, and many other common inhabitants of the 

 garden, we might adduce the genera of Diofma, I11U 

 cium, Nyctanthes, Polyanthes, and fome others, as 



peculiar 



