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fiance is frequently of ufe in diftinguifhing one 
flower from another. Linneus has availed 
himfelf of it in his formation of the genera, 
or families of plants. The various lhapes of 
the corol are alfo of great ufe in this particu- 
lar, and therefore fliould be accurately un- 
derftood *• There are feven different forms of 
the corol : bell-form, of which there are great 
varieties ; funnel-form ; falver-form ; wheel- 
form ; crofs-form ; gaping and grinning corols, 
which may be confidered as different kinds of 
the fame form ; and papilionaceous, or butter- 
fly-form, which belongs to the pea-bloom, or 
lupine tribe of flowers. There is an eighth 
form, which does not belong to any of thefe 
that I have mentioned, and is properly called an 
irregular flower ; of this kind are the monks- 
hood (aconitum napellus), violet (viola), lark- 
fpur (delphinium), orchis, and fraxinella 
(diftamnus). Campanula is an inftance of 
the bell-form ; of the funnel-form, henbane 
(hyofcy amus,) and oleander (nerium) ; of the 
falver form, periwinkle (v'mca) ; of the wheel- 
form, mullein (verbafcum), and pimpernel 
(anagallis); the crofs-form may be feen in 
* See Plate the Second. 
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