CHAPTER 25. 
feen in the Indian Creffes^ (T'rop(Zolum nuu 
jus ) by Elizabeth Chrifaiia, the daughter of 
LiNN^us, as related in the SwediJJj A^s 
in T762, and fince confirmed in the Garden 
Marigold ( Calendela officinalis )y the Orange ^ 
or biilbiferous Lily ( Lilium bulbiferum and 
the African Marigold (Tagetes patula et 
ereBaJy by the obfervations of M* HxA.g- 
GREN. And, as in the univerfe at large, 
the phaenomena of eleftricity are fenfibly 
manifefted to us by particular modifications 
of the principle occafionally excited, al- 
though unqueftionably ever aftive, fo, pof- 
iibly, the fame principle may prevail 
through the whole vegetable creation in 
the procefs above mentioned, though un- 
obferved hitherto, except in thefe inftances. 
Be this as it may, that general decorum, 
which is due to philofophical fubjedls, 
ought to have reft rained that reprehenfible 
language ufed by Vuillant^ and fome other 
writers on this fubjedl, and even by Lin- 
naeus himfelf, which has juftly difgufted 
many readers, and prejudiced the inftrudlion 
they meant to convey. 
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