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| | dedication
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| | Illustration of Robert John Thornton, M.D.
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| | Illustration of Carolus Linnĉus [grayscale]
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| | DEDICATION.
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| | of modern Poets,
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| | PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
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| | Preliminary Observations
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| | Analysis, or Division of Calyxes into their Several Kinds
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| | The Different Kinds of Calyx.
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| | Analysis, or Division of Corollas into their Several Kinds
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| | Different Kinds of Corolla.
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| | Different Kinds of Nectaries.
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| | Analysis, or Division of Pericarps into their Several Kinds.
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| | Different Kinds of Pericarps.
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| | Different Kinds of Seeds.
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| | The Prize Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants, by Carolus von Linnĉus;
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| | On THE SEXES OF PLANTS.
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| | Afterwards,
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| | these persons equally
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| | Pistacia,*
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| | Illustration of Sir Thos. Millington, F.R.S.
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| | Illustration of Farina of Flowers as observed by the Microscope, Published by Geoffroy in the Year 1711.
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| | Camerarius,*
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| | globule verdàtre
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| | "The farina of the Corona
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| | But none better
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| | oration published by
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| | His method of
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| | Permansit sine
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| | "Morus itaque
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| | And this Doctrine,
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| | In order rightly
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| | In the more perfect
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| | the abysses of the sea,
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| | In the same manner
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| | are seen naked
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| | Of these vessels,
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| | By degrees,
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| | FIRST EXPERIMENT.
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| | On another day
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| | The Nymphĉ Alba
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| | SIXTH AND SEVENTH OBSERVATIONS.
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| | and such is our present
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| | SIXTH EXPERIMENT.
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| | Some of the
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| | EIGHTH EXPERIMENT.
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| | From the female
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| | FIRST EXAMPLE.
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| | I could name, [sid image?]
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| | Here then is
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| | tion, I shall consecrate
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| | I shall not tire
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| | PART SECOND.
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| | THE Sexual System of CAROLUS VON LINNĈUS
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| | Illustration of Linnĉus in his Lapland Dress. [color]
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| | LINNĈUS EXPLORES LAPLAND.
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| | ORIGIN OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM.
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| | EXPLANATION OF THE ANALYSIS* of the SEXUAL SYSTEM of CAROLUS VON LINNĈUS.
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| | I. Whether the flowers are 'Bisexual,'
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| | Symbolical Representation of the Sexual System.
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| | ORDERS of the Sexual System. TABLE.
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| | SYNTHESÌS OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM.
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| | THE REFORMED SEXUAL SYSTEM.
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| | APOLOGY.
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| | PART THIRD.
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| | With Flowers the Graces bind their golden hair,
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| | Picturesque BOTANICAL PLATES Of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnĉus: By Robert John Thornton MD.
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| | The Temple of Flora,
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| | PICTURESQUE BOTANICAL PLATES, ILLUSTRATIVE of the SEXUAL SYSTEM of CAROLUS VON LINNĈUS.
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| | These Plates Are most Humbly Inscribed to Her Gracious Majesty
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| | By Her Majesty's Most obedient And devoted Servant
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| | Select Plants.
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| | Illustration of Flora dispensing Her Favours on the Earth.
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| | EXPLANATION OF THE PICTURESQUE PLATES.
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| | Illustration of Ĉsculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid honouring the Bust of Linnĉus.
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| | FLORA, ĈSCULAPIUS, CERES, WITH CUPID, HONOURING THE BUST OF LINNĈUS.
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| | Illustration of And thou, divine LINNĈUS! Trac'd my Reign,
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| | CUPID INSPIRING PLANTS WITH LOVE.
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| | PROEM. THE CARD OF INVITATION.
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| | Illustration of The Snowdrop.
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| | A GROUP OF HYACINTHS.
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| | Though no warm,
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| | January 28, the Crocus
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| | March 1, the Spurge Laurel
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| | Her father chides
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| | "The King of Gods
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| | The Nymph is
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| | "Ah! Rather perish
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| | Illustration of The Persian Clyclamen.
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| | "Sweet Nursling!
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| | Alas! Its no
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| | vation, when the wind
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| | April 12, the Cowslip
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| | April 16, the Daffodil
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| | "Preserve the beauteous
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| | His naked bosom
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| | The sun is dress'd
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| | Illustration of Roses.
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| | A GROUP OF ROSES.
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| | "Assemble all,
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| | Anacreon thus
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| | And hear the Zephyr's languid sighs,
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| | When, rising from the silvery stream,
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| | And bade them bloom,
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| | The fugaciousness
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| | Hear then the Muse--
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| | The married are resembled
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| | The flow'rs she wore
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| | By uplands, and the greenwood-side,
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| | THE INVITATION.
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| | FIRST ODE TO SPRING.
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| | SECOND ODE TO SPRING.
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| | Blest Season!
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| | THIRD ODE TO SPRING.
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| | STANZAS AGAINST WAR.
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| | SECOND ODE AGAINST WAR.
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| | Shall she not mourn
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| | THE NOBLE SENTIMENTS OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY CHARLOTTE, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, AGAINST WAR.
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| | Conscious I am,
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| | Now wing'd by fear
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| | ADDRESS TO VENUS AND CUPID.
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| | ON THE HAPPY RETURN OF PEACE.*
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| | Illustration of A Group of Carnations.
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| | A GROUP OF CARNATIONS.
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| | of the Stamina,
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| | Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden,
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| | Why knows the Nightingale to sing?
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| | Illustration of A Group of Auriculas
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| | Illustration of A Group of Auriculas
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| | A GROUP OF AURICULAS.
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| | Illustration of Tulips
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| | A GROUP OF TULIPS.
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| | TULIP ROOT.
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| | Illustration of The Queen.
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| | STRELITZIA REGINĈ, OR, QUEEN - PLANT.
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| | Illustration of The Aloe.
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| | AMERICAN ALOE, OR AGAVE AMERICANA.
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| | Illustration of The Nodding Renealmia.
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| | RENEALMIA NUTANS; OR, NODDING RENEALMIA.
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| | Illustration of The Night-Blowing Cereus.
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| | NIGHT-BLOWING CEREUS, OR, CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS.
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| | Illustration of The oblique-leaved Begonia.
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| | OBLIQUE-LEAVED BEGONIA, OR, BEGONIA OBLIQUA.
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| | TO THE BUTTERFLY.*
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| | Illustration of Large Flowering Sensitive Plant.
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| | MIMOSA GRANDIFLORA; OR, LARGE-FLOWERING SENSITIVE PLANT.
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| | THE HUMMING-BIRD.*
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| | Illustration of The Blue Passion Flower.
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| | PASSIFLORA CERULEA; OR, COMMON BLUE PASSION-FLOWER.
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| | Illustration of The Winged Passion-Flower.
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| | THE WINGED PASSION-FLOWER, OR, PASSIFLORA ALATA.
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| | Illustration of The Quandrangular Passion-flower.
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| | PASSIFLORA QUADRANGULARIS; OR, QUADRANGULAR PASSION FLOWER.
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| | Illustration of The White Lily - with Variegated-leaves.
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| | WHITE LILY, OR, LILIUM ALBUM.
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| | Illustration of The Superb Lily.
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| | THE SUPERB LILY; OR, LILIUM SUPERBUM.
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| | Illustration of The Dragon Arum.
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| | ARUM DRACUNCULUS, OR, DRAGON ARUM.
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| | Illustration of The Maggot-bearing Stapelia.
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| | MAGGOT-BEARING STAPELLIA. STAPELIA HIRSUTA.
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| | Illustration of American Bog Plants. I. Telid Pothos. II. Pitcher Plant. III. Venus's Fly Trap.
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| | POTHOS FOETIDA; OR FETID POTHOS.
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| | SARRACENIA FLAVA; OR, YELLOW PITCHER-PLANT.
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| | DIONĈA MUSCIPULA; OR, VENUS'S FLY-TRAP.
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| | THE FLY.*
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| | Illustration of The Pontic Rhododendron.
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| | RHODODENDRON PONTICUM, OR, PONTIC RHODODENDRON.
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| | THE BEE.
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| | Illustration of The American Cowslip.
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| | AMERICAN COWSLIP, OR, MEADIA.
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| | Illustration of The Narrow-leaved Kalmia.
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| | KALMIA ANGUSTIFOLIA; OR, NARROW-LEAVED KALMIA.
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| | Illustration of The China Limodoron.
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| | LIMODORON TANKERVILLIĈ; OR, CHINESE LIMODORON.
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| | Illustration of Indian Reed.
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| | INDIAN REED; OR, CANNA INDICA.
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| | RECITATIVE.
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| | NOTES TO THE CANNA INDICA.
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| | at thy word, are transient.
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| | Secondly, his Power.
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| | NYMPHĈA NELUMBO; OR, SACRED EGYPTIAN BEAN.
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| | What first impell'd thee to exert thy might?
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| | But, pensive, on the lotos-leaf* he lay,
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| | Then Brahama his own mind surveyed,
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| | On the Nelumbium,
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| | In raptur'd strains thy praise was hymn'd of old,*
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| | Hence, not unconscious to his orient beam,
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| | When, at their noontide height, his fervid rays,
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| | Nor food to the enlighten'd mind alone,-
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| | Did raging pestilence her shores invade
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| | nificent treasures of gold,
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| | But far beyond the bounds of Afric borne,
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| | Where'er fair Science dawn'd on Asia's shore,
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| | Illustration of The Blue Egyptian Water-Lily.
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| | NYMPHĈA COERULEA; OR, BLUE EGYPTIAN WATER-LILY.
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| | Nile's crimson'd waves with blood polluted roll,
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| | Of that bold race, beneath the Pleiads born,
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| | It is taught in Eastern Mythology,
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| | APOLOGY TO MY SUBSCRIBERS.
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| | LINES ADDRESSED TO DOCTOR THORNTON ON HIS BOTANIC GARDEN.
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| | VERSES ADDRESSED TO DR. THORNTON, ON THE COMPLETION OF HIS TEMPLE OF FLORA, OR GARDEN OF NATURE.
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| | Or pours the Ganges thro' the wide spread plain,
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| | FLORA JEALOUS.
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| | Compact the spot, it prov'd her happiest pow'r;
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| | Th' unfolding leaf, the soft bud newly burst,
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| | CONTENTS
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| | Illustration of Pitcher Plant.
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| | ANALYSIS OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM OF LINNĈUS.
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