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Show [ . 24 ] .1 farfi1all' d in jives each gaudy band proceeds, Each gaudy band a plutned Lady leads ; vVith zealous ftep he clitnbs the upland lawn, And bows in hotnage to the ri.fing dawn ; In1bibes with eagle eye the g?lden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day. QuEEN of the mari11, imperial DRosERA treads Rufh-fringed banks, and mofs-embroider'd beds; 2 30 A plumrd Lad~ lrads. I. 224. The feeds of many plants of this clafs are furniihed with a p~mne, by whtch admirable mechanifm they arc diffeminated by the winds far from the1r ~arent fl:em, and look like a !huttlecock, as they fly. Other feeds are diffeminated by· na ntmals; of thefe fome attach themfelves to their hair or feathers by a glute n, as 1111 etoe ; others by hooks1 as cleavers, burdock, hounds-tongue; and others are [ wal-lowde fdc whole for the fake of the fruit, and voided unini.J'ured ' as the hawth orn, J·U m· per, iain orne graffes. Other feeds aga.in dilperfe themfelves by means of an eJall'c [i d f e1 0 G . a1 ee -ve - '.as ats, :reralllum, and ~mpafiens; and the feeds of aquatic plants, and of thofe whtch grow on the banks of nvers, are carried many miles by the currents into wl · h they fall. See Impatiens. Zofl:era. Caffia. Carl.ina. ' · llC 1D rofera. I. 229. Sun-dew. . Five males ' five fema1es • Th e ~J eaves o-f t1 11 · s marCh-p · ant ·a r.e ,p urplhe , and. have a fnnge very unlike other vegetable pro d uc.nu.· ons. A n d wht·c h IS· 1c unous, at t e pomt of every thread of this erect fringe fl:and II ·d d ~ f ~ . · s a pe uct rop 0 mu- ~~ age, re. emblmg a ducal coronet.. This rnuous is a fccretion from certain lands d hke the ~-~~cous material .round the fl.ower-fl:alks of Silene (catchfl ) g 'a_n fects from mfefl:ing the leaves~ As the ear-wax in animals y pre~ents fmall m-to pre~ent fleas and o~her infeCls from getting into their cars. [~ee:~i;~:~e. I;Jrar~e:g,~ed an emment furgeon m Cateaton-!l:reet I I . cat y, 'lJhen an infect fettled on tHem l'k h' !_,one on, obferved thcfe leaves to bend upwards ' 1 e t e ea\'es of the MufcC-·lp .u 1a y e, ncn·s , and po.m u.n g [ '25 ] Redundant folds of gloffy .filk furround Her :£lender waift, and trail upon the ground; Five :Gfter-nytnphs colleCt with graceful eafe, Or fpread the Boating purple to the breeze ; And jive fatr youths with duteous love comply With each foft mandate of her moving eye. As with fweet grace her fnowy neck :fhe bows, A zone of diamonds trembles round her brows .; Bright !hines the filver halo, as ihe turns; And, as ihe fieps, the living lufire burn~.· Fair LoNICERA prints the dewy lawn, And decks with brighter blu:fh the vermil dawn ; 235 all their globules of mucus to the centre, that they completely intangled and defl:royed it. M. Brouffonet, in the Me.m. de l'Acad. des Sciences for the year 1784, p. 615, after having defcribed the motion of the Dion::ea, adds, that a fimilar appearance has been obferved in the leaves of two fpecies of Drofcra. Lonicera. 1. 241. Caprifolium, Honeyluckle. Five males, one female. Nature has in many flowers ufed a wonderful apparatus to guard the neB:ary or honey gland from infeels. In the honeyfuckle the petal terminates in a long tube like a cornucopire, or horn of plenty; and the honey is produced at the bottom of it. In Aconitum, monkshood, the neCl:aries !land upright like two horns covered with a hood, which abounds E |