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The Corolla , 
The Stamina , 
The PiJUh 
or Flower, has five concave petals, of an oblong, 
inverted-oval form, blunt at the top, which 
curls in at each fide, and is Freaked from the 
bottom upwards with feven tranfparent lines. 
or Chives, have ten equal filaments, fhorter than 
the petals; and their tops, which contain the 
male duff, are roundilh. This duff:, or farina 
foecundans, when highly magnified, appears 
like a tricoccous fruit. 
or Female Organ, has a roundifh germen or em- 
bryo feed-vellel, placed above the receptacle 
of the flower: this is a little deprefled, and 
ribbed like a melon. The ftyle is of a thread- 
like form, fomething fhorter than the fila- 
ments. The ftigma, or top of the ftyle, is 
open, and fringed round the margin. 
The Pericarpinm,OT Seed-veftel, is a gibbous capfule, with one cell 
or apartment. 
The Seeds are many, very fmall, of an ovalfhape, fitting on 
the bottom of the capfule. 
I fhall now give you a general defcription of the fpecies of 
Dionaea before us, called Mufcipula , or Venus' s Fly-trap, 
This plant is herbaceous, and grows in the fwamps of North- 
Carolina, near the confines of South-Carolina, about the la- 
titude of 35 degrees North, where the winters are fhort, 
and the fummers very hot. 
The roots are fquamous, fending forth but few fibres, like 
thofe of lome bulbs ; and are perennial. 
The 
