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your hand, you fee, correfponds exactly 
with this defcription; you have there- 
fore no doubt that it is the Anemone 
pulfatilla, or Pafque-flower. 
Let us now defcend into the vale. 
Thofe trees, in that hedge, Which Vir- 
gil diftinguifhes for their luxuriant pro- 
duce of leaves, 
- ' fecunda frondibus Ulmi, 
are now in bloom. If you examine 
the flower, you will find $Jtamina and 
2 piftilla: 'they are therefore of the Clafs 
and Order, Pentandria Digynia. You 
know the genus by the calyx being 
fliaped like a top, wrinkled, with 5 feg- 
ments and the jlamina being double 
its length. The fpecies is determined 
by its leaves being doubly ferrated : be- 
fides, it is the only Elm in this coun- 
try, Linnaeus calls it Ulmus campeftris. 
Vale. 
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