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and pens them again in the morning. The hieraciums, or hawkweed tribe do the same thing. The daisy opens it flowers at sunrise and closes them again at sunset. The chrysanthemum closes its flowers on the approach of a storm. Linnaeus enumerates forty six meteoric flowers and divides them into three distinct classes. First the flowers that are particularly affected by electrical disturbances. Second, tropical flowers, [[strikethrugh]] which [[/strikethrough]] that open in the morning, and close before evening every day. Third, equinoctial flowers, which open at a certain and exact hour [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] of the day, and for the most part close at another determinate hour.

When flowers obey the motion of electrical impulses, as does the sensitive plant, and many others, and an old maternal swan proves herself so good a meteorologist as to foretel a heavy rain, and moreover calculates the probable height the water may rise around her embriotic progeny's domocil, and all that premonition of changes of weather and electrical disturbances, coming as we say, by instinct, it was worth the while to inquire whether instinct were the better part of reason, so far as phisical causes are concerned, and whether it would not rebound more to the advancement of meteorological science, to start with instructive facts, trace as far as we can the motion that superinduces these facts, instead of looking so much tie in perplexing the mind with mysterious notions of "polarities," of [[strikethrough]] "inductions" [[/strikethrough]] "electrical inductions" of magnets and "deamagnets," where all these minutiae must necessarily fall into the one generalization of motion and its correlatives - the stability and instability of equilibrium, as now developing itself in what science [[strikethrough]] now [[/strikethrough]] adopts as the ground work of phisical phenomena i might be permitted to say all phenomena, inasmuch 

Transcription Notes:
*Hieracium lachenalii, commonly known as hawkweed, is a woodland perennial and is part of the tribe Cichorieae.