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flower; and as a proof that the injury was local 
and partial, the plant, is yet alive, (November 15.) 
The marvel of Peru and Geranium, fuch parts 
of them as weie flruck, were dead the next day, 
though the other parts ftill continue alive. 
The cardinal flower, much lefs fucculent than 
any of the former, feemed for fome days to have 
fuffered in its flowers only, which withered the 
next day after the flroke, though the flowers of 
the other ftems, and which were not flruck, went 
through their ulual courle : in a few days however 
the leaves changed their colour, as well as the ftem, 
and died ; after which, the ftem became perfectly 
dry j the other ftems did not fuffer in the leaft. 
It was a fortnight after the ftroke, before the 
branch of the laurel, through which the electri- 
city was direded, gave any indication of its being 
injured; foon after, however, the leaves changed 
their colour, dropped off, and the branch died ; 
the reft of this (hrub is in perfeCt health. 
For near a month the whole myrtle continued 
without any feeming injury, ftnee which time fe- 
veral of the fprigs near its top have died ; and 
though it was fo long before the injury received 
declared itfelf, yet the mifehief to this myrtle 
was more extenfive, than it was to any other of 
the vegetables expofed to thefe trials. 
Dr. watson, who has very long been con- 
verfant in eleCtrical enquiries, was prefent at thefe 
experiments ; he took the plants abovementioned 
under his care, and ufed his beft: endeavours for 
their prefervation, in order to obferve, with the 
greater exa&nefs, the progrefs of the effeCts of thefe 
eleCtrical ftrokes. 
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