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find many of my Experiments fo different from his, and 
fome that have altogether efcaped him, that, I flatter 
myfelf, mine will not be unacceptable ; which has 
occafion’d my troubling you with this. I have like- 
wife made fome Experiments on that of the Paflion- 
Flower ; which differing very much, I (hall take the 
Liberty to wait on you with next Tuefday. In the 
mean time I am, 
SIR, 
Tour moft obedient humble Servant , 
R. Badcock. 
Experiments and Obfervations on the Farina of 
the Hollyhock. 
f | "'HE firft Experiment I made, was gathering the 
Bud of a Holly hock fo young, that th zPetala were 
not yet form’d ; and ftripping off the Cdlix, nothing 
appeared, but the Apices clofe to the Stylus (for the 
Stamina were not yet perceptible) : Thefe Apices ap- 
peared to me to be a kind of Bag; and I could 
plainly perceive a Seam (if I may fo '-call it) run 
down the middle of it. This occafion’d me to take 
a fine Needle, and carefully open them ; which I did, 
and found each full of Farina, which feem’d to lie 
very regular. This determined me to take notice of the 
Courfe of the Farina in each Flower, and I obferved 
the following Particulars : 
Auguft 24. I took notice of a Flower juft going to 
blow, and the Retain appeared ; the Farina was 
then juft burft from its Apices. The Time of thefe 
U burfting 
