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89)
petals are expanded. That
may not fail of producing ye
intended effect, ye ? particles of
ye polen is are attached to ye sides of
long, extremely fine, elastic hairs.
These hairs are ejected from ye
a thro^ ye apature a very
considerable length, like strings
of beads — & by ye elastic power
are extended & contracted about
ye Stigma, covering ye outer
suf surface of ye anthera.
With a fine needle, ye hairs
may be extend nearly an inch,
tho^ so fine as not to be visible to ye
naked eye, & yn contact, & [reach?]
to ye anthera. By this means
ye particles of polen are re?
prevented from falling to ye
ground, or being blown away
by ye wind before untill they have
performed ye office.

It is a most eligent little
flowering shrub about 18 inch
or 2 feet high — much branched
forming a kind of corymbus,
not perfectly even on ye top.
Each