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flower and feed-like attire, encompafling the feed-cafe, 
may be diitinelly feen when placed before the micro- 
Icope, 
In order to obferve the mealy powder or farina, let it 
he gathered in the midft of a fun-fhiny day when all the 
dew is off, {hake, or elfe gently bruih it off with a foft 
hair-pencil u on a clean piece of white paper; then 
breathe upon a fmgle talc, and infbntly apply it to the 
farina, which will adhere to it. If too great a quantity 
of powder fficks to the talc, blow a little of it gently off, 
if not enough breathe on it again, and touch the farina 
with it as before, then fix it in a Aider as before diredled. 
But I would here advife the curious not to neglect an 
examination of the little cells that contain the farina, and 
alfo of the piffils and uteri, and other parts of generation 
of tire flowers. 
Fig- 534. reprefents the flower of St. Johnwort a little 
magnified, in which may be feen the ftamina and their 
apices iurrounding the feed-cafe, fig. 529. is one of the 
apices more magnified. 
Fig. 530. reprefents one fuit of golden rod flower, 
conufting of a feed-cafe A, and a ftamina e, one of which 
is feen by itfeif at F. 
Fig. 531. fhews one of the fuits of French marigold, 
-or flos African us magnified, of which there are about 
twelve in one flower, each confifting of three pieces, the 
middiemoft of which is feen alone at fig. 532. 
Fig. 5:15. reprefents one fuit of chryfanthenmm-creet, 
conUling alfo of three pieces, of which there are about 
eighty in one flower. 
Fig 536. exhibits one fuit of knapweed magnified, 
conhftiiig of three pieces, a b is the feed-cafe, at the 
bottom oi every fuit. 
f i-g. 537- ‘ s a microfcopic reprefentation of one of 
tr_> luits <jr marigold, of which there are about forty in 
one flower, 
U 4 Fig. 
