GAaNToO.F. DHE: BE Ard DS: LE The freckled IR15s owns a fiercer flame,

And?/iree unjealous huſbands wed the dame. CUPRESSUS dark diſdains his duſky bride,

One dome contains them, but /zwo beds divide.

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ſpe& to number; hence the natural number of the petals eaſily diſcovered. As in poppies, roſes, and Nigella, or devil in

a buſh. Phil. Bot. p. 128.

HE 1 74. Flower de T.üce. Three males, one-female: Some of the ſpecies have a beautifully freckled flower; the large ſtigma or head of the female covers the three males, counterfeit- ing a petal with its diviſions.

Cupreſſus. 1. 73. Cypreſs. One houſe. The males live in ſeparate flowers, but on the ſame plant. The males of ſome of theſe plants, which are in ſeparate flowers from the females, have an elaſtic membrane; which diſperſes their duſt to a conſiderable diſtance, when the anthers burſt open. Ihis duſt, on a fine day, may often be ſeen like a cloud hanging round the common nettle. The males and females of all the cone bearing plants are in ſeparate Nowers, either on the ſame or on different plants; they produce reſins, and many of them are ſuppoſed to ſupply the moſt durable timber: what is called Venice-turpentine is obtained from tbe larch by wounding the bark about two feet from the ground, and Catching it as 1t exſudes; Sandarach is procured from common juniper; and incenſe from a juniper with yellow fruit. The unperiſhable cheſts, which contain the

Egyptian mummies, were of Cypreſ; and the Cedar, with