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Show [ 164 J 0 'er her white neck the brifl:ly mane fhe thro·ws, And binds the gaping whi:lkers on her brows; Plaits round her :flender waifi the £baggy ve:ft, And clafps the velvet paws acrofs her breafr. Next with foft hands the knotted club 1hc rears, Heaves up from earth, and on her ihoulder bears. Onward with loftier fl:ep the Beauty treads, 2 95 . And trails the brindcd ermine o'er the t;neads 300 Wolves, bears, and pards, forfake the affrighted groves, And grinning Satyrs tremble, as fhe moves. CARYo's fweet fmile DIANTHUS proud ad1nires, And gazing burns with unallow' d defires ; Dianthus. I. 303. Superbus. Proud Pink. There is a kind of pink called Fairchild's mul~, which is here fuppofed to be produced between a Dianthus fuperbus, and the Caryophyllus, Clove. The Dianthus fuperbus emits a mofl: fragrant odour, particularly at night. Vegetable mules fupply an irrefragable argument in favour of the fexual fyftem of botany. They are faid to be numerous; and, like the mules of the animal kingdom, not always to continue their fpecies by feed. There is an account of a curious mule from the Antirrhinum lin aria, Toad-flax, in the Amcenit. Academ. V. I. No.3· and many hybrid plants defcribed in No. 32. The Urtica alienata is an evergreen plant, which appears to be a nettle from the male flowers, and a Pellitory (Parietaria) from the female ones ancl the fruit; and is hence between both. Murray, Syll. V eg. Amongfl: the Englifh indigenous plants, the veronica hybrida mule Speedwel is fuppofed to have originated from the officinal one, and the fpiked one. And the Sibthorpia Europa::a to have r 165 J With fighs and forrows her cotnpaffion moves, And wins the damfel to illicit loves. The Monfl:er-offspring heirs the father's pride, Ma:lk' d in the damafk beauties of the bride. So, when the Nightingale in eafrern. bowers On quivering pinion woos the Queen of flowers ; Inhales her fragrance, as he hangs in air, And melts with melody the blufhing fair; Half-rofe, half-bird, a beauteous Monfter fprings, Waves his thin leaves, and claps his gloffy wings; Long horrent thorns his rnoffy legs furround, And tendril-talons root him to the ground ; 310 for its parents the golden faxifrage and marfh pennywort. Pulteney's View of Linneus, p. 253· Mr. Graberg, Mr. Schreber, and Mr. Ramllrom, feem of opinion, that the internal fhuCl:~re or parts of fruCl:ification in lllule-plants refemble the female parent ; but that the hab1t or external llruClure refembles the male parent. See treatifes under the above names in V. VI. Amccnit. Academic. The mule produced from a horfe and the afs refembles the horfe externally with his ears, main, and tail; but with the nature or manners of an afs : but the Hinnus, or creature produced from a male afs, and a mare, refembles the father externally in llature, afh-colour, and the black crofs, but with the nature or manners of a horfe. The breed from Spaniih rams and Swediih ewes refembl: d the Spanifh fheep in wool, llature, and external form; but was as hardy as the Swedllh iheep; and the contrary of thofe which were produced from Swedifh rams and Sp::milh ewes. The offspring from the male goat of Angora and the Swedifh female goat had long foft camel's hair; but th :lt from the male Swedifh goat, and the female one of Angora, had no improvement of thc1r wool. An Englifh ram without horns and a Swedifh horned ewe, produced fheep without horns. Amcen.Acad. V. VI. p. 13: |