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legia), and of the orchis tribe. In aquilegia 
the nectaries have been thought to refemble 
the neck and body of a bird, and the two 
petals {landing upon each fide to reprefent 
wings, whence it's name of columbine, as if 
refembling a nelt of young pigeons, while 
their parent feeds them. In helleborus the nec- 
taries are placed in a circle like little pitchers, 
and add much to the beauty of the flower ; 
but there are not any which are a greater orna- 
ment to the flower than thofe of the parnaffia* 
The beautiful tranfparent globules which 
fringe the margins of the five fcales, called 
nectaries, may probably contain fome vifcous 
juice, which ferves to guard the honey from 
the depredations of infects. In the careful 
diffection of a pink, when the. ftamens fir ft 
become mature, the bafe of the calyx will be 
found replete with honey. By what part of 
the fructification this juice is fecreted, is per- 
haps not an eafy matter to determine ; but if 
determined, that part mull undoubtedly be 
termed the nectary. The nectaries of the 
flowers of mignonette (refeda odorata) are 
of curious and elegant conftruction, two 
fringed petals growing clofe together form a 
little cafket, or box, the lid of which is a 
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