but its unfortunate want of two more 
ftamina, feparates it from its family. If 
you examine the flower, you will find 
it contains one piftillum and two very 
diftincl: jiamina with large anther^ 
which you perceive have burft longi- 
tudinally on the under fide, and are 
now in the a6l of difcharging, in great 
profufion, a fine yellow pollen^ on the 
iummit of the piftillum ; but, being na- 
turally taller than \.}\eftamina> it bends 
its neck down between the ftamina, for 
the purpofe of receiving this yellow 
duft. Yet Linnaeus, as a generic cha- 
racter fays* Filament a tranfverfe pedi- 
cello affixa-, and Dr. Withering tells us, 
that the rudiments of two chives ap- 
pear in the mouth of the bloffom, but 
they have no tips. In this fpecies, how- 
ever, nothing can be more confpicuous 
than the ftamina and ttfs, as he chufes 
to call them; and, as to the filaments 
fixed tranfverfely to a pedicle, there i$ 
not the leaft appearance of it. In this 
JpecieS) you obferve, the flowers grow 
in whirls, fix in each; the leaves are 
wrinkled, fcallopped and ferrated, on 
the upper part of the item fefllle, on 
the 
