PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 205 
ART. IX. 
A Differtation on the Sexes of Plants 5) by 
- Cuaries Atston, M. D. King’s Botanift 
in Scotland, Fellow of the Royal College of 
Phyficians, and. Profefor of Medicine and 
» Botany in the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 
f Ga {malleft, and apparently moft defpi- 
cable productions of nature, are not fo 
barren, but that they are capable, both to in- 
_ vite our fpeculations, and to recompence them. 
Even Pliny could fay, ‘ rerum natura nuf- 
quam magis quam in minimis tota eft.”” (a) 
_ For how much foever the coeleftial bodies de- 
clare magnificence, and immenfity of power ; 
yet do they not by far afford us fo clear and 
! ‘cogent arguments of wifdom and defign, as 
_ do the bodies of animals and plants. And 
‘ for my part, fays the great Boyle, 1 am apt 
to think, that the eye of a fly is a more cu- 
i tious piece of workmanfhip than the body 
ll of 
s., fa). Lis xt, ¢., 2. 
