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The Floral King. I4I
something like rose-leaves, but without colour; he
made a drawing of them.
“‘T received a month ago, from the Councillor of
Commerce, the Honorary Herr Bungencrona, a
quantity of tea-plant seeds. I tried them in water to
see if they were sound, but found that they were
decayed, although the kernel appeared sound, which
generally happens with the seeds of the tea-plant. I
poured water from the water-jug into the hand-basin
in which the seeds lay, and macerated for eight
entire days, the water became brown, the seeds were
taken away and sown. This brown water remained
another eight days, if not more. I found great
pleasure in observing how the brown water separated
itself from the clear water in the hand-basin, and
looked like a painting of brown shrubs in the liquid
water, and I thought I saw here a species of palin-
genesie. At last the water froze in the cold room,
and perfectly retained the figure which the tinged
water had before, so that the ice lay in the hand-
basin like branches and leaves. The ice was about
an inch thick, and between.the branches the water
had not formed the slightest ice. It is very strange
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