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The veronica and hare-bell, hyacinthus 
non fcriptus, have the appearance of many- 
petalled flowers ; but if the corols are taken 
with care from their receptacles, they are 
found to confift of one piece flightly united 
at the bafe. In the hare-bell and veronica 
v/e have inftances of the bell-form and wheel- 
form corols, although the wheel- form of the 
veronica is lefs decided from the inequality of 
the breadth of the divifion of it's petals, the 
lower divifion being narrower than the three 
tipper ones; which nice circumftance is made 
ufe of by Linneus to diftinguifh this family 
from -all others to which it bears any refem- 
blance. The curling divifions of the corol of 
the hare-bell difguife it's form alfo; but in 
neither of thefe genera is the form of the corol 
the elTential character of the family; and is 
therefore of lefs importance. The Genus of 
crowfoot (Ranunculus) is difcriminated by 
an appearance equally minute as that of the 
veronica ; a fmall protuberance at the bafe of 
the inner part of each petal being found in 
every individual of the ranunculus tribe, even 
in the double flowers, affords a marked cha- 
ra&eriftic of that family. The minute cir- 
cumftances, of which Linneus has availed 
himfelf 
