tc. V E G E T ABLE KINGDO M. 



forming from the bud-leaves the Bratlcs of the next year, 

 the Cafy -; of the following one, the Carol oi that fucceeding it, 

 the Stamens of the fourth, and Pijlil of the fifth • which is 

 filled with the granulated Medulla of the Seedy the termina- 

 tion of vegetable lire. 



25. FLORESCENCE exhibits the Efppufals of Plants in the Flower, 

 and their * Nuptials in the Anthefis. 



The Flower, the unclad Larva of the Herb, comes forth 

 from the difplayed, internal plant, naked and perfecl, like 

 the above mentioned flying Injeft : IFingJheathed in refpect to 

 the Calyx, Winged in refpect to the Corol, corififting alone 

 of the Organs of Reproduction: In the Males the fta mens 

 have their Anthers replete with the Prolific Powder contain- 

 ing the vivifying Fovilla: In the Females the PifHls-have their 

 Ovarium terminated with a tubular and moijl Stigma. 



The Anthesis takes place, when the burfl Anthers fcatter their 

 bags of Di'Jl upon the Stigma, when this duft gives out 

 the included male Fovitla, to be abforbed by the prolific 

 Lymph of the Stigma ; fo that the male corporeal part and the 

 Female medullary one, produces the feed, or Egg, which is 

 nournhed in the Ovary to its due maturity. 



26. The PRINCIPLE of Fructification, the Foundation of Botany, 

 mould be traced higher. 



Problem : we may fuppofe God at the beginning to have pre- 

 ceded from fimple to compound, from few to many ! and 

 therefore at the beginning of Vegetation to have created juft 

 fo many different plants, as there are Natural Orders. That 

 He then fo intermixed the plants of thefe orders by their 

 marriages with each other ; that as many plants were pro- 

 duced as there are now difHnct Genera. That Nature then 

 intermixed thefe Generic plants, by reciprocal marriages, 

 (which did not change the ftruclure of the flower) and mul- 

 tiplied them into all poflible exifting Species ; excluding how- 

 ever from the number of Species, the Muk-plants produced 

 from thefe marriages, as being barren. 



Each Genus therefore is natural, Nature alTenting to it, if not 

 making it. 



The 



Sponfalia plantarum. Aman. acad. I. n. \%. 





