. The Saturday magazine . E KAULFUSSIA. This flower, which, in spite of its ugly name, isbeautiful, has been lately introduced from the Capeof Good Hope. It produces seeds very freely; andwill, doubtless, be soon as well known as Mignionetteand China Asters. A great number of vegetables have some changeof character, either by folding their leaves, closingtheir flowers, or other mode of protection, during thenight, or the continuance of unpropitious Kaulfassia amelloides, (Amellus-like Kaulfussia,)as shown in our figure, possesses a peculiarity whichis, in some degree, contrary to t
. The Saturday magazine . E KAULFUSSIA. This flower, which, in spite of its ugly name, isbeautiful, has been lately introduced from the Capeof Good Hope. It produces seeds very freely; andwill, doubtless, be soon as well known as Mignionetteand China Asters. A great number of vegetables have some changeof character, either by folding their leaves, closingtheir flowers, or other mode of protection, during thenight, or the continuance of unpropitious Kaulfassia amelloides, (Amellus-like Kaulfussia,)as shown in our figure, possesses a peculiarity whichis, in some degree, contrary to the usual laws of floralprotection. In general, such plants as occasionallyvary the position of the corolla, close it, more or less,over the centre of the flower, to guard the internal 96 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE [March 9, 1833. organs from dew or rain. But this plant, at night,or in overcast weather, has its petals rolled back,apparently for their own protection, leaving thecentre, or parts of fructification, wholly The Amellus-Uke Kaitlfussia. Linnajus observed the habit of many plants, inclosing their flowers, and gave a treatise on the sub-ject, in the Amocnitatcs Academical, vol. iv. He hasnoticed the habit of the Nymph(ca alba, or White-flowering Water Lily, which is well kno\\ai to closeits flowers in the afternoon, and lay them on thesurface of the water till morning, when it raises andexpands them, often, in a bright day, to several inchesabo\ e the water. The ancient botanists also have recoided their ob-servations on this subject; lor Theophrastus, morethan 300 years before the birth of our Saviour, wroteto the same effect, respecting the Egj-ptian Lotus;and further observes, that It is reported that inthe Euphrates, the head and flowers keep sinkingtill midnight, when they are so deep in the wateras to be out of the reach of the hand, but towardsmorning they retui-n, and still more as the day ad-vances. At sunrise they are already above the sur-face, with the
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