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Show [ 14 J _ When Titne's rude hand a bark of wrinkles fprcad Round her weak litnbs, and filver'd o'er her head, Three other youths her riper years engage, The Ratter' d viCtims of her wily age. So, .in her wane of beauty, NINON won With fatal fn1iles her gay unconfcious fon.Clafp'd in his arms !he own'd a n1other's name," Defifi, ra{h youth ! refirain your impious flame, 125 piflil bends at nearly a right angle to infcrt its fligma amongG: them. In a few days, as thefe decline, the other three G:amens bend over, and approach the piflil. In the Fritillaria Perfica, the fix fiamens are of equal lengths, and the anthers lie at a difbnce from the piflil, and three alternate ones approach firfl:; and, when thefe decline, the other three approach: in the Lithrum Salicaria, (which has twelve males and one female) a beautiful red flower, whiGh grows on the banks of rivers, fix of the males arrive at maturity, and furround the female fame time before the other fix; when thefe decline, the other fix rife up, and fupply their places. Several other flowers have in a fimilar manner two fets of fl:amens of difFerent ages, as Adoxa, Lychnis, Saxifraga. See Genifla. Perhaps a difference in the time of their maturity obtains in all thefe flowers, which have numerous fiamens. In the Kalmia the ten Hamens lie round the pifl:il like the radii of a wheel; and each anther is concealed in a nich of the carol to protea. it from cold and moiflure; thefe anthers rife feparately from their niche~, and ;,.pproach the pi(til for a time, and then recede to their former fituations. |