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Show [ I 91. } 'I'he pulpy a,corn, ere it [wells, contains The Oak's vafi branches in its 1nilky veins ; Each ravel' d bud, fine fihn, and fibre-line 1'raccd with nice pencil on the [mall defign. The young N arciifus, in its bulb cotnprefs' d, Cradles a fecond nefl:lina- on its breafi · b ' In whofe fine arn1s a younger embryon lies, Folds its thin leaves, and ihuts its floret-eyes ; Grain within grain fucceffive harvefis dwell, And boundlefs forefis D.utnber in a !hell. -So yon grey precipice, and ivy' d towers, Long winding meads, and intern1inglecl bowers, 395 its root fending .forth two branches, from each of which feveralleaves or blades of grafs proceed.ed. Microfc. Vol. I. P· 2)2. Mr. Bonnet faw four generations of fucce£Tive pPlIa ntfis m the bulb of a hyacinth. Bonnet Corps Organ · Vol · I · P· 103. H a 11 er ·s 1Y !01. Vol. I. P· 91. In the t.erminal bud of a horfe-chefnut the new flower rna be fccn b~ the naked ~yc cove.red with a mucibginous down, and the fame in the bul~ of a narcdfus, as I this morning obfcrved in feveral of them fent me by Mifs for that purpof..:. Sept. 16. Mr. Ferber fpeaks of the plcafurc he received in obferving in the b ' f h . and p d' J · h' ~ · . . uos o ep:liiCa c Jcu ans muta yet lying hid In the earth, and in the crms of mez~reo~, and at the bafc of ofmunl!a lunaria a perfect pla~t of th t:e llnub daphne cermble In all its parts a year before it comes forth and in the feeds ofe utu~e yea~, dlfthe leaves of the plant were feen fo difl:inctl ' . nymp ea ne umbo plant the feeds belonaed to The r. f yl th~~ the author found out by them what b • Jamc o t 1e ~c eds of th r · · tulipiferum. Amxn. Acad. Vol. VI. e tu 1p tree or lmodendron [ 193 1 Green files of popbrs, o'er the lake that bow . ' And g1in11nering wheel, which rolls and foams below In one bright point with nice diflinetion lie Plann' d on the moving tablet of the eye. --So, fold on fold, Earth's wavy plains extend, And, fphere in fphere, its hidden firata bend ;Inculnbent Spring her bea1ny plu1nes expands 0' er reftlefs oceans, and impatient lands, \Vith genial lufires warrns the mighty ball, And the GREAT SEED evolves, difclo:fing All; LIFE buds or breathes fro1n Indus to the Poles,, And the vafl: furface kindles, as it rolls! ' And the great feed. I. 406. Alluding to the 'T!'~o-ro, ~ov, or firtl great egg of the antient phi~ofophy, it had a ferpent wrapped r0und it emblematical of divine wifdom, an image of 1t was afterwards preferved and wor01ipped in the temple of Diofcuri, and fuppofed to rcprefent the egg of Leda. See a print of it in Bryant's Mythology. It was faid to have been broken by the horns of the celefl:ial bull, that is, it was hatched by the warmth of the fpring. See note on Canto l.l. 413. dnd the vajl fwface. 1. 408. L'Organization, le fentiment, lc n'lovcment fpontane, b \ ic, n'cxifl:ent qu'ii Ia furface de la terre, et dans le Jieux expofes a la lumiere. Traiti: de Chymic par M. Lavoifier, Tom. I. p. 2b2. P<\.RTI. Cc |
