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Show 196 CANTO IV. D ejanira in a lion's fkin 163 Maid of night J.j.2 OfFspring from the marriage of the Fairies LJ.4 Rofe and Nightingale 164 Electric lady 144- Parched deferts in Africa 166 Shadrec, Mefhec, and Abednego, in Turkifh lady in an undrefs 168 the fiery furnace q6 lce-fcene in Lapland 170 Shepherdeffcs 147 Lock-lomond by moon-light 172 Song to Echo 14-7 Hero and Leander 1 Kingdom of China 73 14-9 Gnome-hu!band and palace under Lady and dill:aff 150 ground 174 Cupid fpinning 151 Lady inclofed in a fig IN Lady walking in fnow 151 Sylph-hu!band 176 Children at play 152 Marine cave 176 Venus and Loves 153 Proteus-lover 178 Matlock Bath 154- Lady on a Dolphin 178 Angel bathing 156 Lady bridling a Pard 178 Mermaid and Nereids I 57 Lady faluted by a Swan 179 Lady in fait 158 Hymeneal proceffion 18o Lot's wife z6o Night 18r Lady in regimentals 162 [ 197 CONTENTS OF THE NOTES. S, EEDS of Canna ufen for praye r-beads Sten,s and leaves of Callitri che (o matted together, as they _fl oat on the water, as to bear a perfon walktng- on them · The female in Collin Ionia app roaches firfl: 4 to one of the males, and then to the other ' 4 Females in Nigella ann Epi lobium bend towards the males for fomc days, and then leave them The fl:igma or head of the female in Spartium (common broom) is pro lucecl amono-fl: the hi g her fct of males; but when the kcc~L leaf opens, the pi fl:il fudden ly twil1:s round like a f.'rcnch - horn, and places the fl.io·ma amidfl: the lower fct of males 0 The two lower males in Ballota become 5 mature before the two h igher ; and when their d ull: is fhed , turn outwards from the female The plants of the clafs Two Powers with naked feeds arc a ll aromatic 6 Of thefe Marum and Nepeta arc del ight-ful to cats The filaments in Meadia, Borag-o, Cyclamen, Solanum, &c. {hewn by l'eafoning to be the mofl: unchan!;.eable parts of thole fl owers Rudiments of two hinder wings are feen in the clafs Diptera, 01· two-winged infects Teats of male animals Filaments without anthers in Curcuma, Linum, &c. and fiyles ~ithout fl.igmas in many plants, fi1ew the advance of the works of nature toward$ greater perfection Double flowers, or vegetable monfters, how produced 8, 10 The calyx and lower feries of petals not changed in double flowers Difperfion of the dull: in nettles and other plants Cedar and Cyprus nnperifhable Anthoxanthum gives the fragrant fcent to hay 10 Viviparous pla nts : the Aphis is viviparous in fummer, and oviparous in autumn I r Irritability of the fl:amcn of the plants of the cl afs Syngencfia, or Confede rate males 12 ome of the males in Lychnis, and other fl owers a rrive fooner at their maturity 13, 14 Males approach the female in Gloriofit, f.'ritillaria, and Kalmia 14· Contrivances to defl:roy infects in Silenc, Dion:-ca m u fcip ul ~, Antm mu{civorum, Dypf<~cus, &c. r s "om bell - Rowers clofe at night; othen hang the mouths dO\~nwards; other:; nod and turn frotn the wind; fl.a tnens bound d?"'n.to the pifii! in Amaryll is formofilfima; ptfiil 1 crooked in !IemeloC<IIlis fl avd, )"Ll-low day-lily 1 6 Thon~s and prickles dcfi g-ned for the defen ce of the phnt; tall HoiJics have no prickles above the reach of rattle 18 Bird-lime ft om the bark of Hollies like elafl:ic gum 1 Adanfonia the largefl: tree known, itE di9 menfions Bulbous roots contain the embryon flower, feen by di!Tetlin;: a tul ip-root Flowers of Colchicum and Hamamelis appear in autumn, and ripen their feed in the fpring following 20 2 I 21 Sunflower turns to the fun by nutation, not by gyration 2J Di fpe rfion of feeds 24 D rofc ra catches fl ies 24 Of the ncttary, its fl:ruClure to preferve the honey from infects 25 Curious probofcis of the Sphinx Convol-vuli 26 f.'inal c:mfe of the refemblance of fomc fl owers to infects, as the bee-orchis 26 In fome plants of the clafs Tetradynamia, o1· Four Powers, the two fi10rter fl:amens, when at maturity, rife as high as the others 27 I ce in the caves on Tenerifr, which were formerly hollowed by volcanic fires Some parafites do not injure trees, as Tillandfia and Epidcndrum Mofles growing on trees injure them Marriag-('s of plants neceffitry to be cel e-brated in the air Infetls with legs on their backs Scarcity of g rain in wet feafons Tartarian lamb; u!e of down on vegeta. 28 28 z& z8 ::19 hi es ; air, glafs, wax, and fat, arc bad conrluctors of heat; fnow does not moifl:en the living animals buried in it, illufl:ratcd by burning camphor in fnow 30 Of the collapfe of the fenfitive plant 31 Birds of paflage 33 The acquired habits of plants 34 Irr itability of plants incrcafed by previ- OttS C'i"pofure to cold Lichen produce the firfl: vegetation on rorks 36 Plants hold ing water 37 34 |