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order, but ftill fhewing nothing elfe but the mere coat of 
fkki of the grain. 
If the obfervation with the microfcope be continued for 
feveral days fucceffively, in other flowers as they advance* 
the veflcula will be found to fwell, and by degrees to be¬ 
come replete with a limpid liquor; wherein when the 
farina comes to be filed, and the leaves of the flower to 
fall, we obferve a little greenifli fpeck, or globule, float¬ 
ing about at large. At firfl: there is no appearance of 
organization in this little body ; but in time, as it grows* 
we begin to diftinguifh two little leaves like two horns* 
The liquor infenfibly diminifhes as the little body grows, 
till at length the grain becomes quite opake; when upon 
opening it, we find its cavity filled with a young plant 
in miniature, con filling of a plumula, radicle, and lobes. 
The tops or apices fometimes Hand ere£f above their 
chives or flamina, as thofe in lark-heel, but generally 
hang a little down by the middle like a kidney bean, as- 
in mallows; they have for the raoft part a double cleft, 
though it is in fome Angle, from which they difburfe 
their powders which Hart out, and Hands upon the lips of 
the cleft, as at fig. 529. which reprefents one of the apices 
of the flower of St. John’s wort magnified. 
The particles of thefe powders although like meal or 
duff, yet if viewed through a microfcope, they have all 
©f them very curious and regular forms. In dog’s-mercury 
and torage they are extreamly frnall, but in mallows fairly 
vifible to the naked eye. In fome flowers thefe powders 
are yellow, as in dog’s-mercury, goat’s rue, &c. and in 
fome of other colours, but in moft they are- white 5 thofe 
of yellow henbane are very elegant, being to the naked 
eye as white as fnow, and in the microfcope as transparent 
as cryftaL 
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