duft, and the plant, having paffed thro’ all the pe¬ 
riods of vegetation, continues in the form it has thus 
affirmed. Its color during its young or globular 
date is a vvhitifh afh ; but when in its ultimate form, 
it is generally of a brown color, more or lefs deep 
in different individuals. Had this curious vegeta¬ 
ble been obferved in the times of popular fuperfti- 
tion, there is little doubt but it would have been 
coniidercd as a Temple raifed by the power of Fai¬ 
ries. 
