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ornament, being fhaped like a fmall kidney, and 
attached to the filaments by their middle in 
fb flight a manner, that they appear rather to 
lie upon than to be fixed to them. The piftils 
are enclofed by the ftamens, till they begin 
to advance towards maturity, when they 
burft forth, and form an elegant taflel, a little 
above the furrounding anthers : in the china 
rofe (hibifcus) this taflel is particularly beau- 
tiful ; the rich crimfon piftil rifes rather 
higher than ufual above the golden anthers, 
which encircle it, and dividing into five fila- 
ments at top bends down it's round ffigmas 
amongft them ; thefe ftigmas, at the period 
of maturity, having the. appearance of the 
riclieft crimfon velvet fpangled with gold. 
The double hibifcus is that which is generally 
cultivated; but it is greatly inferior in beauty 
to the finglc, as, from the multiplication of it's 
petals, the other elegant parts of the fructifi- 
cation arc excluded. As the. {ixtjeenth clafs 
is founded on the fituation of the ftamens, fo 
are the orders on their number, beginning 
with the number three, and ending with that 
of eleven. The clafs 'Diadelphia, or two- 
brotherhoods, the feventeenth clafs, is perfectly 
natural, and the ftmciure of the coroi fo 
remarkable, 
