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has made the flowers recline, in order that 
the dull may more eaflly fall into the fiigma y 
e. g. in the campanula , cowfiip \ &c. But 
when the fecundation is compleated the flow- 
ers rife again, that the feeds may not fall out 
before they are ripe, at which time they are 
difperfed by the winds. In other flowers on 
the contrary the piftill is fhorter, and there 
the flowers prelerve an eredt fituation, nay 
when the flowering comes on they become 
ere£ *, tho 5 before they were drooping, or 
immerfed under water. Lafdy, whenever the 
male flowers are placed below the female 
ones, the leaves are exceedingly fmall, and 
narrow, that they may not hinder the duft 
from flying upwards, like fmoak ; as we fee 
in the pine, fir , yew^ fea-grape , juniper , cy- 
prefs , &c. and when in one and the fame fpe- 
cies one plant is male, and the other female, 
and confequently may be far from one another, 
there the duft, without which there is no im- 
pregnation, is carried in abundance by the help 
1 This curious phenomenon did not efcape the poetical 
eye of Milton, who was fo very much ftruck with the beau- 
ty of it, that; he thought it worth defcribing in the follow- 
ing enlivened imagery, 
With cow flips wan that hang the penfi've head \ 
of 
