and near woods, cfpecially on a chalky foil; but it is 
never fcen in fuch complete perfection as when it 
happens to grow in the fliade of a wood, as in. this fitu- 
ation it efcapes all thofe injuries which the leaves are 
fo apt to fufler, when growing in a too funny expofure. 
So ltriking is the general refemblance which the 
flowers, when viewed at a little diftance, bear to an 
Infcft, as to have uniformly imprefled all obfervers 
with the fame idea ; and may almoft juftify the appli¬ 
cation of the epigrammatic defeription. 
Nature in doubt a beauteous Flow ’r 
Or InfeCt to difclofe. 
At length beneath her forming pow’r 
They both in union rofe. 
