t46 Cole Vain?’ 5 Remarks bn the Nature 
he diclaims all pretenfions to the difcovery upon which i itis founded, 
and moreover afferts,in the Philofaphia. Botanica, that the florefcence 
of the Fucus*had been firft brought to light by that author. Now 
Reaumur in no inflance admits that Wt male flowers are contained 
in the. air-bladders; . On the contrary, he, politively. Malmtains that 
.. the pencilled clufters of fine hairs, fpread, on the furface, are the 
male flowers exclufively. Whatever ambiguity, therefore, may be 
. attached to the word “  veficulzz" -as. applied: by Linnzus, or however 
he may. have vatied his mode  expreffion at different times, ftill 
we-are to.recur. to the account of .t] covery; as ftated' by Reau- 
mur, for the reak import, and. meaning which ought, to. have been. 
conveyed. in the definitions of Linnaeus. fince on that alone his 
doctrine of the: male flower appears to. reft.: The defcription: cited. 
above from the Genera Plantarum feems evidently to.relate.to the airs - 
bladders in the Bus M ada and da induced. fome: authors to- 
confider. „the tification’ as -confined -to~ tliofe 
ae the do&tzine. of. Reaumar and "x yes ithe pente 
clufters of hairs, fcattered over. the furface of. the frond, are the 
male sides will find themfelves + reduced to the nies: of sie 
very properly produces the perns of Linnzus. in fupport of the a above opinion, In the 
. fame work, the Fucus Jerratus i is alfo noticed as having **two- kinds of fru&lifications fuf-. 
ficiently obvious ;” -icen the feed-veflels in the fummits, and the clufters of fine hairs ex 
ternally fituated. But it muft not be paffed over, that the fame appearances are equally 
obvious on the Fucus veficulofus and. alli its varieties. Admitting therefore that the male 
flowers are contained in the air-bladders, the Fucus veficulo ojus, muft of courfe have. three 
diftingt parts of fructification; one expofed, another concealed, and the third in 1 the fum- 
Y plats admitted) producing the feeds, - 
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