This plant, with blue flowers, which Gle- 
I gathered under the hedge, you may C9m * 
pofllbly know by the fmell. However, 
let us examine it fcientifically : the fmell 
may deceive you. If you open the 
flower, you will difcover 4 flamina, two 
of which are fhorter than the other 
two: therefore the clafs is Didynamia, 
in which there are but two Orders, viz. 
Gymnofpermia, feeds naked, and Angiof- 
permia, feeds inclofed in a vefTel. Here 
the feeds are naked, it is therefore of 
the firft of thefe Orders. If now you 
obferve the antherte, you will fee that 
each pair forms a crofs, which is the 
generic character of the plant G/ecoma-, 
and as there is but one Species of this 
genus, it can be no other than the Gk- 
coma hederacea, or Ground-ivy. 
The corolla of the Glecoma, you obferve, 
is of a particular and irregular fhape: its 
upper lip ftands erect and is divided half- 
way down; the under, fpreads and is cut 
into three fegments, forming a kind of gap- 
ing or grinning mouth. Moft of the flow- 
ers of this Clafs have the fame appearance 
and are therefore eafily known. It compre- 
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