p of "marine. Plants, - 5. : T5 3 
: E care to guard this operation from the prefence of that 
element; if pollen can exift in an active ftate under a mucous ap- 
pearance; and if the antherz of perfectly fubmerfed flowers are no- ` 
thing elfe than clofed veffels filled with mucous pollen; what doubt 
can we entertain, that the mucilaginous veficles of the fubmerfed 
Alga (which contain alfo their feeds) are anthere?" =- 5 y. 
-I fhall now briefly confider this theory of florefcence, as taken. up 
-upon the principles eftablifhed by Linnzus, and explained in the 
technical language of that author. It may perhaps fcarcely be worth 
while to obferve, that Mr. Correa de Serra, at the beginning of the 
above paffage, appears to make a diftinction between the terms 
— and Sari ina, which i in fact are e merely EPA Pollen, ; 
ore tha / per vapour or power co | 
to which it acts principally as a vehicle *. This part of the dis 
bevig soot E fonnd pager a farinaceous form, 1 is diftin- 
| aving. there: s any objestion that. ‘might be reda againf ‘the 
- expreffion “ mucous pollen,” I cannot pafs over a  fubfequent rc remark, 
in which the faculty of i impregnation is attributed to the part con- 
-taining the feeds; and the province of the antherz, fo diftinétly pre- 
ferved in the fexual fyftem, is nearly blended with that of the feed- 
yeflel. The paffage alluded to is the following: “ What doubt can 
we enter tain, that the mucilaginous ` veficles of the fabmerfed Alga 
(which con contain alfo their feeds) are anthere?" In fhort, if the re- 
predation of thefe plants is to be elucidated by the Linnean theory 
of floreícence, and its concomitant terms, efpecial care dhor ld 
7 
* Gitieraticnem vegetabilium feri mediante polinis antherarum illapfa fupra. FA 
quo rumpitur_ pollen, Sau auram rods quz abforbetur ab humore ftigmatis. 
: Ph. Bot. fe. 145. 
“Vor. V. ; x * taken 
