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Show ( 200 ] So {hall each Genu with new prolific power Delay the leaf-bud, and expand the flower ; Clofed in the Style the tender Pith :ihall end, The lengthening Wood in circling Stamens ben 1 ; The fn1oother Rind its foft embroidery fpread 4 7 5 In vaulted Petals o'er the gorgeous bed :md becomes a bearing branch. The theory of this I fuppofe to depend on the dti11- culty with which the leaf-fhoots can protrude the roots neceffary for their new progeny of buds upwards along the bended branch to the earth contrary to their natural habtts or powers, whence-more flower-{hoots are produced which do not require new roots to pafs along the b:~rk of the bendecl branch, but which let their offspring, the feeds, full upon the earth and feck roots for themfel ves. Tflith mw prolific pow(r. 1. 47 I. About Midfurnmer the new buds are formed, but it is believed by fome of the Linnean fchool, that tl:lefe buds may in theii· early fhte be either converted into flower-buds or leaf-buds according to the vigour of the vegetating branch. Thus if the upper part of a branch be cut away, the buds near the extremity of the remaining ftem, having a greater proportionalfupply of nutriment, or poffcfTing a greater facility of !hooting their roots, or abforbent vd1'els, down the bark, will become leaf-bmls, which might otherwife have been fl:ower· buds, aml the contr:ny ; as -explained in note on l. 467. of this Canto. C!ojed in the .flylc. 1. 473· "I conceive the medulla of a plant to confift of a bundle of nervous fibres, and that the propelling vital power feparates their uppermofi extremities. Thcfe, diverging, penetrate the bark, which is now gebtinous, and become multiplied in the new gem, or leaf-bud. The afcending veffels of the bark being thus divided by the nervom fibres, which perforate it, and the afccnt of its fluids being thus impedeJ, the bark is extended into a leaf. But the flower is produced, when the protrufion of the medulla is greater than the retention of the including cortical part; whence ~he fubfl:ance of the bark is expanded in the calyx; that of the rind, (or interior bark,) 111 ~he carol; th~t of the wood in the fiamens, that of the medulla in the pifl:il. VegetatiOn thus term mates in the produ8ion of new life, the ultimate medullary and cortical fibres being collected in the feeds." Linnei Syftcma Veget. p. 6. edit. 14. [ 201 ] The wrinkled bark, in filmy mazes roll'd Fonn the green Ca'l..v/ x ' told I. nc1 u d1' ng fold' ; Each widening BraEle expand I. t, s .rt oliage hard, And hem the bright pavillion, Floral Guard. -So the cold rill from CrNTRA's fl: eepy 1r1d es, I--Ieadlon 0" ab t · b t>' rup ' Jn arren channels glides; Round the rent cliffs the bark-bound Suber fpreads And bzy monks recli~e on corky beds ; ' Till ' led by a I.L.. , the won de n.n g water moves Through vine-hung avenues ' and C'l t ron groves ; Green Dopes the velvet round it's :Giver fource, Ancl Rowers, and fruits, and foliage mark its courfe . . At breezy eve, along the irriguous plain The fair Beckfordia leads her virgin train ; 490 Seeks the cool grot ' the fuado wy roc k s among, And tunes the n1ountain-echoes to her fong ; Cilltra. I. 48 I. A village on the !ide of the rock f L' . abundance of cork trees atld {i . ~ dbon, around the futmmt are ' orne excavatiOns wh h ~ k . . -on beds or benches of COl k ; uear the vilb e M '. B tc a ew man s mhabtt, and !leep g 1 • eckford has an elegant feat. PART I. D d |