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(ic Hanicat operation of parts, which are neither calculated to pro- . 
mote, or capable of communicating, thofe het ii: ‘functions 
which refult from a ftate of adretceneale M — ico yn 
- It has been juftly obferved by one of the greateft philofophets of 
the prefent age*, “ that Nature though varied is generally uniform 
in her operations." ‘The more we contemplate the extenfive volime 
which fhe prefents to our view, the more this obfervation will be- 
come confirmed > but while it tends to vindicate the exiftence of a 
principle equivalent to, as I have before maintained, though differ- 
.ently modified from, that which directs the fexual fyftem, it cannot 
reconcile itfelf to the affumption of two diftin& males a&ing by 
different proceffes in the fame plant, any more than it can admit 
either of oe bodies Epon to Lisp sc a ftate of unc. 
c periods of the say dide as vens as 
avive fituations, they militate againft every law of — as fat 
as refpects the Linnea E - | 
— of the flower itfelf, a veh THÉ very intàcc uit s in 
the ftigma and anthere, which, connected with the pollen con- 
taining the fertilizing vapour, can alone conftitute a ftate of flo- 
refcence; and that, without thefe effential parts, everr the bloffom 
viti its RENE Bis ala ee Mea ot in Figs hcl be confidered 
1i ud and mechanical Ceara which dites the 
cent votaries to zp fexual 1 fle. Strengthened i m e » 
| * Sir William Hamilton. x B 
