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ftrudture was not fuch as to form a marked 
character. As a further proof of this, the nec- 
tary is not named in the one-pe'talled flowers, 
though nothing can be more evident than the 
honey contained in their tubes ; and Linneus 
has, in fome of his works, called the tube of 
a one-petalled corol a true neftary. Among 
the nectar-bearing ftamens he enumerates 
•thofe of the fraxinella (diclamnus). It feems, 
however, more probable, that the refmous 
matter, with which they abound, is not of 
the nature of honey, but fimilar to that found 
upon the {talks, which is fo inflammable as 
to take fire on the approach of a lighted can- 
dle, and to burn like fpirit of wine, till it is 
entirely exhaufted. 
The ftrudture of thofe nectaries which are 
placed feparate from all other parts of the fruc- 
tification, is an object that merits the ftrictefl 
attention, not only as ■di'ftinguifhing decidedly 
one genus from another, but from the artful 
manner in which they are formed for the 
purpofe of preferving from infects the pre- 
cious {lore contained in them. The moft 
remarkable are thofe of the monk's-hood 
(acomtum napellus), of chriftmas rofe (hel- 
leborus niger), parnaffia, and columbine (aqui- 
legia), 
