natural history. 
3';2 
guifhed by the names and titles of eminent 
and exalted charaiSters : thu«, it has been' 
not unaptly obferved, that, as auriculas in- 
creafcd fo fad, and great men, if poffible, 
decreafcd fader, in a fliort time names of 
didindlion would be wanting to denote their 
dilFerences. The goodnefs of an auricula 
condds in a drong flower-dem, fliort foot- 
dalks, large regular flowers, full, round, 
and white eyes ; and that the flowers them- 
felves may be flat, not the lead inclining to 
cup. ° 
The culture being particular, we refer our 
readers to Bradley s new improvements in 
gardening and planting. 
V I O L E T. 
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JL HE violet produces, frornus root, tufts 
of leaves almod round, indented on the ed- 
ges, and of a beautiful green. In the middle 
of thefe leave's grow the flowers, confiding 
of feveral irrregular lips, fliaped like a butter- 
fly: the two ujjperinod refcmble a (land; and 
thofe on the fule are lilce wings ; and the two 
lowermod are formed like a little bark. 
Ihus curioufly formed, it has been equally 
the pride of the peafant, prince, and poet. 
It is one of the moft early beauties with which 
ITora prefents reviving nature, it grows ih 
“Hy fy;:t of ground, and is pariicularly pieaf- 
