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Hantiy, new ones mail here and there arife; we canridt therefore depend upon the conftancy of this variety. Another fingular variety is the proliferous or hen and thicken daify, in which a number of flowers {landing on fhort fbotftalks fpring circularly out of the main flower; as this appearance for the moft' part arifes from great luxuriance*, this fort of daify is alfo found occafionally to lofe its prolific character: in my garden at Lambeth-Marfh, I once had a daify growing in an edging among a number of others^ which not only became proliferous, or of the hen and chicken, kind, but its ftalk alfo, or fcapus, became branched, producing fix or feven flowefing-fterfis, with flowers at their extremities of the fize of the common daify ; thus we find that the moft permanent characters of plants are liable to be altered, and
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Hantiy, new ones mail here and there arife; we canridt<br />
therefore depend upon the conftancy <strong>of</strong> this variety.<br />
Another fingular variety is the proliferous or hen and<br />
thicken daify, in which a number <strong>of</strong> flowers {landing on fhort<br />
fbotftalks fpring circularly out <strong>of</strong> the main flower; as this<br />
appearance for the m<strong>of</strong>t' part arifes from great luxuriance*,<br />
this fort <strong>of</strong> daify is alfo found occafionally to l<strong>of</strong>e its prolific<br />
character: in my garden at Lambeth-Marfh, I once had a<br />
daify growing in an edging among a number <strong>of</strong> others^ which<br />
not only became proliferous, or <strong>of</strong> the hen and chicken, kind,<br />
but its ftalk alfo, or fcapus, became branched, producing fix<br />
or<br />
feven flowefing-fterfis, with flowers at their extremities<br />
<strong>of</strong> the fize <strong>of</strong> the common daify ; thus we find that the m<strong>of</strong>t<br />
permanent characters <strong>of</strong> plants are liable to be altered, and<br />
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