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September 9 at the Height of fix Foot two Inches from 
the Ground, it (hot a certain round Knot from its 
Trunk, which without any help of Art, fo cncreafed 
and extended almoft horizontally, that on the four- 
teenth of the fame Month, it was eight Inches 
and plainly (hewed a Flower, though as yet clofed, 
embelilhed with a beautiful Mixture. of Green, Purple, 
and White. This fame Evening the Flower began to 
open and continued till Midnight ; when being entire- 
ly fpread, it was fix Inches in Diameter. It was of a 
pretty ftrong, but not very pleafant Smell. After 
Midnight it gradually contraded about half an Inch, 
and remained thus till next Day at Noon. Then it 
began to contrafi fafter, to half the Diameter the ex- 
panded' Flower was of; and the next Morning it was 
quite clofed and withered, but hung on the Trunk till 
the thirtieth of September, The Beginning of the 
Flower is a fort of Tube three Inches long, not quite 
an Inch thick, .between a yellow and a pale Green. 
Its Surface was fmooth, but chanelled by certain fmall 
narrow Furrows, between which, blunt Protuberances 
were feen to run, in a parallel Order, along the Ridges.' 
Where the Tube expanded itfelf, it divided into more 
than forty petaloid Segments, ranked in fix feparatc 
Series, the three inferior and exterior whereof here 
and there confounded their Order, while the three 
fuperior and' interior remained regular ^ and unmixed. 
Thefe Series were diftinguifhed by their Size and Co« 
lour. The firfi, or exterior was of the fame Colour 
with the Tube,.^^. of a pale Green*, but its upper 
Part gradually inclined to a Purple. The fecond and 
thied had half the inner Part greenilh, the Edges of a 
more intenfe Purple. The fourth was between yel- 
