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ambrosial ASTf 
aster gran die lor us 
T H is fpccious After has been fome time famllin. 
double till the prefent year. In any ftatc it is^^l f'"' ^ ''■'''^not feen It 
but the double exeeeds the common ftate of the Flower ' "n" = 
and now eommon, China After. The Stem is robuft'^lnd ' ”1 '“'"ous, 
innumerable; and the fmall curl’d Leaves run up into tl^^'"™ Sranehes are 
from the fingle to the perfedly double Flower lias bLl progreffion 
eye, I fhall take this opportunity of e.xplainimr rh^ * <;onipF.atj.j under my 
Syngenefious Plants are doubled ; finee it is altog«her different f I 
nature purfues the fame purpofe in the other Genera Th FI 
very lofting, whenee I have nam’d the Plant Ambroftal, immmuT'' 
The radiated Syngenefious Flowers we fee are i , - . 
Flowers or Flofcules, and thefe are of two kinds • th ' M-r 
.h. dft of . 1 .. g.„„, f f ”■ *" f-™ 
inftance they differ alfo in colour, thofe of the dtlk h ’ 11 
pie : thefe feveral Flofcules have been fuppofed perf-AIv^H A' T’ P“''" 
fo nearly ally’d, that nature, in a ftate of hi , ^ ‘ > ^ut w-e Ihall fee they are 
In .L Vl... He .uboL Flrf ele at Z.T’ TZ "» 
W P,al fia-J opo. .he of . td a d ef.™!. Z"' " "f 
ments. The rays rife in the fame mann. ’ n r %' 
have alfo a tubular yellow bafe, tho’ it has notT ^ 
ingatthetop, intoie fegrnems, op^n!, Tl’ 
Jat it is continued into a ray or flat Petal; whofe bafe is holbw" In thf Fl^T' •’ 
ftyle, as m the others ; but there are no Filaments. ^ ^ ^ “ 
The courfe by which nature forms a double Flower in this Plant is hv • ■ 
one long fegment and two Ihn r n , ^ '“"S'""’ 
«fe, fide for Filaments in this 
kceo’me the fam!" r° remains; <ind thefe rays of the centre 
tne lame entirely with thofe of the verge. 
tubular p'llt "I of the After doubled : but as there yet remain ufually fome perfeA 
fall over thenl l" tbo’ they are hid by thefe numerous rays, part of which 
to the nref Flower itfelf can therefore ripen Seeds. This is not peculiar 
Seeds. t^°uble China After is form’d in the fame manner, and alfo ripens 
After cauJc 
cor)mbofoi foliis lanceolatis, reflexisj floribus folicariis ; cal/cibiis patulis. 
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