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AURICULA. 
The peduncles, or foot-ftalks of the 
flowers, fhould alfo be flrong and elaftic, 
and of a proportional length to the fize 
and quantity of the pips, which fhould 
not be lefs than feven in number, that 
the bunch may be rather round, clofe, 
and compaft. 
The component parts of the pip, are 
the tube (with its ftamins and anthers) ; 
the eye, and the exterior circle, contain¬ 
ing the ground-colour, with its edge or 
margin: thefe three fhould be all well 
proportioned, which will be the cafe if 
the diameter of the tube be one part, the 
eye three, and the whole pip fix, or 
nearly fo. 
All the admirers of this flower agree 
that the pips ought to be round; but 
this feldom happens; and we mu ft be 
content if they are fo nearly round as 
not to be what is termed ftarry* 
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