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the calyx; the corol is fix-petalled and belled; 
the grace with which the beautiful bell- 
flowers are hung round the fummit of a tall, 
rich, green ftem, and the elegant appearance 
of the tuft of narrow Aiming leaves rifing 
from the midft of them, with the fmall ca- 
vity at the bafe of each petal filled with a 
pure cryftalline liquid, render the whole one 
of the firft objects of admiration to all who 
have a tafte for the natural beauties of a 
flower garden. Nor is the outward appear- 
ance of this lovely plant alone worthy of ad- 
miration ; the honey drops contained in the 
cavities at the bafe of each petal are objecls 
of much curiofity, the quantity being fo nicely 
adapted to the parts by which it is contained, 
as to preferve them always full and apparently 
ready to overflow, and yet never to exceed 
it's proper limits. The ftamens and piftils of 
crown-imperial are very confpicuous; each 
particle of duft, when viewed through a mi- 
crofcope, exhibits the moft perfect form. The 
ftyle and ftigma Ihould alfo be examined: we 
may perceive, with the naked eye, the moifture 
at the top of the ftigma, which fits it to 
receive the duft of the Anther, and to con- 
vey it's eflence through the ftyle to the 
3 _ Germe ; 
