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of the wind from the male to the female ; as iit 

 the whole dioicous "" clafs. Again a more diffi- 

 cult impregnation is compenfated by the Ion- 

 gasvity of the individuals, and the continuation 

 of life by buds, fuckers and roots, fo that we 

 may obferve every thing moft wifely difpofed 

 in this affair. Moreover we cannot without 

 admiration obferve that moil flowers expand 

 themfelves when the fun Ihines forth, whereas 

 when clouds, rain, or the evening comes on, 

 they clofe up, left the genital duft fhould be 

 coagulated, or rendered ufelefs, fo that it can- 

 not be conveyed to tht Jiigmata. But what is 

 ftill more remarkable and wonderfuU ! when 

 the foecundation is over, the flowers neither 

 upon fliowers, nor evening coming on clofe 

 themfelves up. Hence when rain falls in the 

 flowering time, the hufbandman and gardener 

 foretell a fcarcity of fruits. I could and would 

 iluftrate all this by many remarkable inftances, 

 if the fame fubjedt had not lately been explain- 

 ed, in this very place " in a manner equal to its 



^ i.e. where one plant bears male flowers, and the other 



female ones. 



n I fuppofc the author here alludes to a treatife publifhed 

 in Amxn. academ. vol. i. entitled, 5ponJ alia plant antyn^ in 

 which arc contained fo many proofs of the reality of the 

 different fexes of plants, that to me there feems to remain 

 no room for doubt. 



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