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feds of an unfavorable climate, and only make a faint 

 and feeble attempt towards the middle of the day, at 

 exerting their extraordinary faculty ; a convincing 

 proof how much the artificial heat of a northern ftove 

 is inferior to the genial warmth and balmy foftnefs of 

 its native Indian atmofphere ! It is there that it exerts 

 its wonderful motions with unreftrained freedom, and 

 is regarded as a facred plant, poffeffed of powers fu- 

 perior to the common race of vegetables. 



This voluntary motion is not analogous to any other 

 yet obferved in plants : it is one of thofe numerous 

 phaenomena which we are obliged to view without un- 

 derftanding, and to admire without being able to 

 explain. 



The fpecimens raifed in Europe generally rife to 

 about the height of two or three feet : the leaves are 

 of a bright green with the middle part of a more 

 glaucous appearance than the reft : the flowers are of a 

 pale red, flightly tinged with blueifh, and fometimes 

 yellowifh. 



